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		readams on July 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Life without line numbers for 6% smaller Go binari... Virus scanners just treat UPX as a compressed file format and scan the binary inside.

corty on July 22, 2020 [–]

Some scanners also treat UPX as generally malicious.

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