Symantec found evidence of Longhorn against 40 targets spread in 16 countries

Re:Symantec found evidence of Longhorn against 40 targets sp... by curiousgal on Monday April 10, 2017 @02:03PM (#14081024)

>On one occasion a computer in the United States was compromised but, following infection, an uninstaller was launched within hours, which may indicate this victim was infected unintentionally.

How do they know that?

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Re:Symantec found evidence of Longhorn against 40 targets sp... by ttctciyf on Monday April 10, 2017 @04:18PM (#14082165)

They're being polite to the CIA whose charter forbids domestic ops (or at least severely constrains them.)

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Re:Symantec found evidence of Longhorn against 40 targets sp... by crazyhatfish on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:28AM (#14084849)

Its Symantec, they run AV on thousands of computers across the globe. All the events generated from these computers get sent to them. Removal/cleaning procedures would be one of those events, probably for this very reason (i.e creator gets sloppy, installs and then uninstalls on their own machine).

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