Sunday, 7 July 2013

What is Polymorphic Virus?

They encode or encrypt themselves in a different way every time they infect your computer. They use different encryption and algorithms. This makes it difficult for the antivirus software to locate them using signature or string searches (since they are very different in each encryption).

Example:
  • Marburg
  • tuareg
  • Satan bug
  • elkern


Source: http://typeslist.com/

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