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		btipling on April 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a millio... What do you learn? What have you ever done with that knowledge?

sliverstorm on April 5, 2012 [–]

It teaches about the structure of the registry, and gets your hands in some of the low-level hooks of the system. It mostly teaches you how to remove viruses. I didn't mean to say it was truly practical knowledge; I just enjoy discovery.

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