Microsoft calls out malicious downloaders

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Microsoft calls out malicious downloaders

Microsoft is putting makers of downloader software on notice when it sees that their products are being used to infect PCs, and it is telling anti-virus vendors that perhaps these downloader programs ought to be tagged as malware.

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