ml> and these are clean fully patched images with absolutely no malware or
 ml> other festering pestulance installed on them??? how can you be sure??

   Because if they were, someone would have noticed it, reported it and they
would have been removed. Some of them has been there for years, ample time for
someone to notice any irregularity.

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