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Not only that, but it detected update programs from other companies like Google and Adobe. In some cases it crippled software if Sophos was set to delete rather than deny. There are reports in their forum of companies with 20,000 PCs that got hit and in some cases had software crippled.

Clever. The font makes it possible for the agent to verify he is on a Gauss machine by visiting seemingly innocuous websites which have code to detect whether the font exists, and then inform him by outputting special text only he knows about. He could receive messages that way too. Once he knows it's a Gauss machine, he can drop his specially named files and they are delivered.

I tried Sublime Text 2, loaded up a 150mb log file. It took over one minute to load, then crashed a few seconds later. I uninstalled it and am keeping Notepad++ and donating money to it.