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If you follow the links to from the release notes to the relevant wikileaks pages, you will find a list that also include chrome, firefox, vlc, opera, libreoffice as well as Kasparsky and McAfee antivirus and many other commonly used software packages, many of them open source.

It is also the first time I have seen evidence that they also target Linux, since they have a hijacked "CMD prompt" on Linux, whatever that means. They may also have targeted Linux with the other software packages of cause.

This is really scary.



> Kasparsky and McAfee antivirus

if you had high opinions of those programs, you have bigger problems


Antivirus software is likely a net negative for computer security in general. On the other hand they are without doubt used a lot, which makes them attractive targets.

My point was more the length of the list of commonly used software than the quality of each item on the list.




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