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Writing good antivirus software is hard. Just ask the developer at a major antivirus company who was infected with the Coreflood trojan on his personal computer for over a year. Perhaps he was just testing their product, but it seems odd to have allowed the trojan to capture some of his personal information. Fortunately the antivirus developer was not a domain administrator on the company’s network, so Coreflood didn’t spread to every other system in the Windows domain like it did at several other businesses, hospitals and government organizations.

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