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Everything you ever wanted to know about macro viruses but were afraid to ask! Dr Igor Muttik begins a series of articles dedicated to them.
Read moreEverything you ever wanted to know about macro viruses but were afraid to ask! In this part: WordBasic, VBA, up/down conversion and polymorphism.
Read moreEverything you ever wanted to know about macro viruses but were afraid to ask! In this part: mating, devolving, naming and prevalence.
Read moreSarah Gordon has spent years researching the whys and wherefores of virus writing. The first instalment of her three-part feature attempts to explain the inexplicable.
Read moreIn the second part of her series of articles on virus writers, Sarah Gordon examines the question ‘How have they changed?’.
Read moreSo far in her series of articles on virus writers, Sarah Gordon has covered five of the most frequently asked questions concerning virus writers. In this, the third and final part of the series, she examines the question that seems to raise the most…
Read moreOver the years, investigations undertaken by the UK's Police Central eCrime Unit (PCeU) have led to the arrest of several individuals involved in computer crime and, as part of international operations involving security firms and foreign law…
Read moreProfessor Klaus Brunnstein was one of the biggest names in anti-virus research, a pioneer in the field whose career was never short of either controversy or success. In April 1996, VB spoke to the man himself about his background, his career, his…
Read moreRMNS was the second known ‘multicellular’ virus. Its code was divided into two parts (‘male’ and ‘female’). The two parts of RMNS installed themselves into memory independently of each other, but infection could only take place if both sections of…
Read moreThe first 'multicellular' virus, Dichotomy, had ‘odd’ and ‘even’ components. When a file infected with the ‘odd’ component was executed, the virus looked for a file infected with ‘even’ code, installing itself into memory only if that part was found.…
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