Re: Re: Question about Viruses

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 7/7/06, Peter Kosinar <goober () nuf ksp sk> wrote:
> > well, I just ran a script to insert a newline character into all the
> > source code for viruses I downloaded from
> > http://www.totallygeek.com/vscdb/ so the number is now more like
> > 400,000 :-)
>
> Nope, unless you inserted the newline into some kind of string, you've
> only doubled the number of source codes... Though, you could have
> also tried space<->tab and CRLF<->LF conversion (and combination thereof),
> thus quadrupling the number of sources! :-)


Forgive the ignorance, but is that all a polymorphic virus is? Someone
adding useless code to the app to change its signature?

-JP
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