Subj : Non-Malware Spyware
To   : All
From : warmfuzzy
Date : Tue May 21 2019 06:30:24

My Grandmother was recently hacked big time.  It lost her $18,000 Canadian
Dollars.  The software that rooted her Windows box was not detected as being
malware because it had a useful function that people paid for, not something
that usually is used to hack systems with.  Teamviewer and a product from
Citrix were installed on her machine.  Both are meant for professional remote
system administration.  So the anti-virus detected no malware.  How these
software programs got on her computer in the first place is not known. 
Somehow they did get on her system though.  Her box was fully rooted.  There
was also a third program that was in the same category of Teamview and the
Citrix software, but I don't recall what that one was called.  In all these
cases the software had a legitimate purposes, they just weren't being used in
legitimate ways.  This is just a heads-up... if you see this stuff installed
on your box be sure to delete them and run some anti-malware software to
check for some sort of entry point.

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

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