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Guest Christopher Budd, Senior Global Threat Communications Manager at Avast, joins Dave to talk about some research his team did when they looked into a Reddit report saying their Avast folder was empty and other reports like it. The team found a new malware they\u2019re calling \u201cCrackonosh\u201d in part because of some possible indications that the malware author may be Czech. Crackonosh is distributed along with illegal, cracked copies of popular software and searches for and disables many popular antivirus programs as part of its anti-detection and anti-forensics tactics.\nThe research can be found here:\nCrackonosh: A New Malware Distributed in Cracked Software\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices