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by jen20 1120 days ago
> could have become reactivated later by the change of a single byte in an installed system.

Is that not a condition under which it could be executed?

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Only if the application has code to change that byte. “It could be changed by a patch” doesn’t count as a condition under which it could be executed, because a patch can make any change it wants to. You wouldn’t say “there’s a condition under which Windows will wipe your hard drive and every visible network share” just because someone can write code to do that.