Anupam,
I could not believe that Lenny Zeltser, see below, could suggest malicious software, but Avira said, "it's a malware".
http://blog.zeltser.com/about-lenny-zeltser
"Lenny Zeltser, a seasoned IT professional with a strong background in information security and business management. As a product management director at NCR Corporation, he focuses on safeguarding IT environments of small and midsize businesses world-wide. Before NCR, he led an enterprise security consulting team at a major IT hosting provider.
Lenny’s most recent work has focused on malware defenses and cloud-based services. He teaches how to analyze malware at SANS Institute, where he is a senior faculty member. He also participates as a Board of Directors member at SANS Technology Institute and volunteers as an incident handler at the Internet Storm Center.
Lenny frequently speaks on security and related business topics at conferences and industry events, writes articles, and has co-authored books on forensics, network security and malicious software. He is one of the few individuals in the world who’ve earned the highly-regarded GIAC Security Expert (GSE) designation. Lenny has an MBA degree from MIT Sloan and a Computer Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania."
I could not believe that Lenny Zeltser, see below, could suggest malicious software, but Avira said, "it's a malware".
http://blog.zeltser.com/about-lenny-zeltser
"Lenny Zeltser, a seasoned IT professional with a strong background in information security and business management. As a product management director at NCR Corporation, he focuses on safeguarding IT environments of small and midsize businesses world-wide. Before NCR, he led an enterprise security consulting team at a major IT hosting provider.
Lenny’s most recent work has focused on malware defenses and cloud-based services. He teaches how to analyze malware at SANS Institute, where he is a senior faculty member. He also participates as a Board of Directors member at SANS Technology Institute and volunteers as an incident handler at the Internet Storm Center.
Lenny frequently speaks on security and related business topics at conferences and industry events, writes articles, and has co-authored books on forensics, network security and malicious software. He is one of the few individuals in the world who’ve earned the highly-regarded GIAC Security Expert (GSE) designation. Lenny has an MBA degree from MIT Sloan and a Computer Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania."
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