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The installer didn’t ask for permissions. It didn’t draw a GUI. It wrote itself directly to a RAM disk, then spawned a command-line window with a single prompt: A partial hash Mara found tucked inside a
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A single file appeared: FRS_1.81_PORTABLE.exe