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		mjs on Aug 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Mystery of the Encrypted Gauss Payload So whilst the malware will infect machines more or less indiscriminately, the payload itself can only be successfully decrypted (and therefore activated and executed), on machines that have a specific set of programs installed?

dkokelley on Aug 14, 2012 [–]

I think it's actually just one specific program, who's name starts with a special character or high UNICODE character.

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