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		riquito on Oct 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again... His point was that you need root "to install it", not "to run it".

Volpe on Oct 18, 2013 [–]

Wait, but 'install' means 'download' ? So if chrome was a single .py file, which I downloaded, and ran with python. Thats fine. But because it's a .exe, i need root... ?

I fail to see the difference. Sorry.

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