MALWARE ARMS RACE. “The legendary Bulgarian writer Dark Avenger came up with a clever innovation known as a mutating, or polymorphic, virus. A mutating virus randomly reorganizes its decryption algorithm every time it replicates to outsmart the policing of the scanner. In step three, antivirus engineers devised “heuristic” scanners, built to sniff out all but an insignificant percentage of a virus’ mutants through educated pattern recognition.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022