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From a malware author’s perspective, naming your virus technetium.exe is actually pretty clever. It sounds technical, pseudo-scientific, and just boring enough to ignore. It’s not as obvious as virus.exe or as suspicious as windows_update_fake.exe .
If you’ve been digging through your Task Manager recently and spotted a process named technetium.exe chewing up 12% of your CPU, you probably had the same two thoughts I did.