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The Most Unique Viruses of 2012

Posted by samzenpus on from the best-of-class dept.

Orome1 writes "PandaLabs outlined its picks for the most unique viruses of the past year. Rather than a ranking of the most widespread viruses, or those that have caused most infections, these viruses are ones that deserve mention for standing out from the more than 24 million new strains of malware that emerged."

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  1. Most Unique? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shame on you Slashdot.

    1. Re:Most Unique? by Fluffeh · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Putting my grammar in my pocket for a moment, I got to admit that:

      Ainslot.L: When it infects, the Ainslot.L bot scans computers and removes any other bots it finds.

      Sort of passes as being pretty damned uniquest!

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  2. Re:New virus idea: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hint: you're being an asshole

  3. Re:1 in 1000, 1 in 10000 by zAPPzAPP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With a uniqueness of zero for both, they are pretty much equally unique.