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Promythyus · 11-13-2012

Hardly surprising. It does things unintended by the author of the original software, pretty sure that's at least a partial definition of malware.

However in this case it's "good" malware.

11-13-2012	#17
Promythyus Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Likes: 0 Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Hardly surprising. It does things unintended by the author of the original software, pretty sure that's at least a partial definition of malware. However in this case it's "good" malware.