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Another iteration of the infamous ZeuS Trojan was developed to be run only on high-end machines with fast performance. Security researchers usually deploy automation and virtualisation technologies to cope with the growing volume of malware spewed out by cybercrooks every day. Knowing this cyber crooks use virtual machine detection and anti-debugging code in their creations. This increases the time for security analysts to detect, develop and distribute anti-virus updates.

The Trojan horse program decided to battle against its much-larger rival, by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers.

 According to the security researchers, the relatively unknown Spy Eye toolkit added this feature called "Kill Zeus” just a few days ago in a bid to displace its larger rival.