Third—and this was its crowning feature—it reverse-engineered the malware’s encryption key from the memory heap before the malware could overwrite it. In geek terms, it played the villain’s own game and won.
First, it isolated the ransomware in a virtual cage (a trick v.7.0.1461 had learned from its firewall module). The malware thought it was encrypting the real C:\Documents , but it was only touching a decoy sandbox. Avast Internet Security Antivirus Pro v 7 0 1461
And in the great archive of forgotten software, it was never called a dinosaur. It was called a legend. typing on its own:
The screen flickered. A black terminal box appeared, typing on its own: Avast Internet Security Antivirus Pro v 7 0 1461