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geococcyxc on Feb 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

Because it is needed to decrypt the key and as the program uses it, it must be in memory (at least at some time).

nsxwolf on Feb 19, 2015 [–]

Ahh. That makes sense. So the malware itself is decrypting the certificate using the password.

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