A new piece of malware called Poweliks can seize control of a Windows computer — and it cant be detected by antivirus programs. From there it can seize control of the computers processes to do things such as download more malware onto the computer. Poweliks is all but invisible to traditional antivirus programs, which work by searching for recognized malware files — a potentially very dangerous situation, said malware researcher Paul Rascagnères.
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