Malicious Phoning Home
There are many Malware applications that "phone home" to gather and store information about a person's machine. For example, the Pushdo Trojan shows the new complexity of modern Malware applications and the phoning home capabilities of these systems. Pushdo has 421 executables available to be sent to an infected Windows client.
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