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Pedro Bueno is a Security and Malware Researcher at McAfee Labs for almost 5 years. He also has a volunteer job at the SANS ...

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Please Call My Virus This!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 2:56pm by Pedro Bueno

Occasionally when we analyze malware, we find hidden messages there. They can be as simple as “Hi” or some choice words that would probably cause this blog to be X-rated.

This trait is not new. And naturally we don’t make much of this habit so that the malware writers don’t earn any extra fame.

Today I was checking a family of malware, and I found another of those messages: “HELLO ANTIVIRUS MAKERS! This is XXX! Please call this sh*t YYY! Cheerz ”

Sorry, XXX. I can’t get excited about your lame YYY product. You’ll have to look elsewhere for your few minutes of fame.

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anon October 7, 2009 7:50AM

That guy’s paying your bills :/