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Avira also mines imaginary internet money on customers' PCs

Christian Berger

Nobody expects that kind of software to do anything other than...

...waste CPU cycles. After all the only remotely sensible feature (scanning for known bad strings of octets) is only semi-useful so vendors try to proof maths wrong by trying to find out if code is "good" or "bad" by just looking at it.

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