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What next?: Trojan.Linkoptimizer

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Overview This isn't the work of an amateur. It may be one of those cases where a virus-writing teenager has refused to face reality and, as a grown up, has gone on to develop and improve his/her evil creatures with a new ultimate purpose: to make a living. It's no longer done for fun. But this is part of evolution and the antivirus industry must do more in response, since threats such as Linkoptimizer are at large, setting trends in malware development.

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Publisher	Symantec	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management

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