Trojan spurns low-spec systems

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<h1>Trojan spurns low-spec systems

Anti-virus software vendor F-Secure is reporting that a new version of Zeus does not infect systems with processors running at less than 2 GHz. In order to avoid early detection and make life more difficult for virus analysts, many pieces of malware try to determine whether they are in an analysis environment when executed. If a piece of malware determines that the process is being executed under the control of a debugger, it will terminate without infecting the computer.

Story: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Trojan-spurns-low-spec-systems-1142261.html