June 20, 2023, 11:39 a.m. | Paritosh

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Welcome to the wonderful world of registry run keys, the magical ingredient that makes persistent malware possible! You might think that these boring registry entries are just harmless bits of information, but in the hands of a crafty hacker, they can turn your computer into a zombie slave that does their bidding.

So what are registry run keys, you ask?

Well, they’re just a little something-something that tells your computer to automatically run a program or process every time it …

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