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Re:New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped by sydd on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:12PM (#26208032)
How does it handle scripts? E.g. my virus is a python script bundled with the known and clean python executable
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Re:New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped by noinsight on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:13PM (#26208970)
It doesn't. Python would need to add support for it.

The built-in scripting languages do, PowerShell enters constrained language mode and IIRC something also happens to VBScript/JScript, haven't even looked at those.

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