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Re:Putting an end to Retadup: A malicious worm that infected... by sneystein on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:04AM (#20828405)
Part of the reason might be that the malware was designed to be benign and not use all available resources
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Re:Putting an end to Retadup: A malicious worm that infected... by _nhynes on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:39AM (#20829873)
> benign

For the computers running on renewable power (Costa Rica, maybe?), it would truly be benign and not just stealthy. Long live green PoW!

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