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Criminals try to "copyright" malware
By Jordan Robertson
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Posted 01 May 2008 @ 07:37 pm GMT
Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in.
The ultimate rub- Apparently the threat was not only hollow but unheeded. Symantec said the program that's accompanied by the novel rules is being traded freely online and so far its authors haven't called Symantec to make good on their threat.
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