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    Default malware-killer bots

    Excuse my ignorance if it's glaringly obvious, but I wonder why people don't develop bots to patrol the net and destroy malware programs. Each malware program has a fingerprint obviously. What's to prevent programs being designed to seek them out and disable/terminate them?
    Last edited by tashi; 2014-10-10 at 07:53. Reason: Split off from Spybot beta forum

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    Hello Andrew_Oid,

    Interesting idea but such a scenario at this time isn't possible.

    Also, think of the lawsuits when false positives cause such bots to seek out and terminate applications created by legal companies.
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