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19 What is an armored virus? (Computer virus)

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This article is from the Computer Viruses FAQ, by Nick FitzGerald n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz with numerous contributions by others.

19 What is an armored virus? (Computer virus)

An ARMORED virus is one that uses special tricks to make tracing,
disassembling and understanding of its code more difficult. A good
example is the Whale virus.

 

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