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		0x0 on Feb 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Malware Museum Aren't these two statements contradictory? `> * was only 419 bytes long > * infected both .COM and .EXE, increasing the size of the former by only 1813 bytes`

db48x on Feb 6, 2016 | [–]

Compressing the payload was pretty common.

CaptSpify on Feb 5, 2016 | [–]

I know nothing about these, but is it possible it put it's code in multiple places on the .com or .exe?

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