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Re: Question about Viruses
From: Peter Kosinar <goober () nuf ksp sk>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:19:07 +0200 (CEST)
This way the engine wouldnt submit the new virus to the parent company for developers to figure out a removal procedure.
In fact, this happens regularly (though, not very often) -- certain pieces of malware tend to be infected by parasitic viruses (Win32/Parite.B comes into mind) and are thus detected as such and possibly disinfected by the AV and the underlying piece of malware might remain undetected. On the other hand, such "protection" usually lasts for very short time...
Like I said, I am not a coder (yet, I am trying to learn in my spare time), so lemme know if this is completely incorrect.
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