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Latest polymorphism hides viruses better
Robert Lemos, 2006-08-30
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Latest polymorphism hides viruses better 2006-08-30
Essential Security (1 replies)
Businesses (and individuals) who are concerned with virus infections should look into encryption solutions. If an application can be used to encrypt sensitive documents, then even if a virus does enter your computer, it cannot touch the protected files. This allows for safe transmission of such fi...

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Re: Latest polymorphism hides viruses better 2006-08-30
Anonymous
Thanks for the spam. Oh - and encryption doesnt help at all against mallicious code, you are totally missing the threat.

(Here is a clue; Encryption is not access control)

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Latest polymorphism hides viruses better 2006-08-30
Anonymous (1 replies)
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33999

http://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/archive/2006/08/10/107293.aspx

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Response from the author... 2006-08-30
Robert Lemos
Unlike other articles, this brief did not focus on the AMD64 aspect of the infector, but its ability to use some new techniques to protect its execution from defensive reverse engineering.

The original brief was careful to discuss the virus as an infector of the Windows hooks into the AMD64 platf...

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Latest polymorphism hides viruses better 2006-08-31
Whistler (1 replies)
You're not only wrong about encryption preventing the spread of viruses, it could even be the other way around. If you're infected with a virus, and your encrypted file you're passing along to others is infected too, there's no way for an antivirus program to scan the file. It will sneak right throu...

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Re: Latest polymorphism hides viruses better 2006-09-03
Anonymous
encryption has been the way that poison has been passed on for years and now with the new style of ransomeware the threat is even more out there.encrytion just hides it better till someone activates it...

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