A application that looks for known patterns on 1.8.9 mods to detect if
they are malicious.
It also has built-in tools to discover more.
IMAE, Integrated Malware Analysis Environment
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A application that looks for known patterns on 1.8.9 mods to detect if
they are malicious.
It also has built-in tools to discover more.