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Why some antiviruses detect viruses and some not?
I am curious why some anti-viruses detect viruses and some do not. From what I found online, antiviruses parse the binary files and check the sequence of code which is malicious(exists in virus ...
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How could an AV detect a virus that has a chance of not decrypting itself?
If I understand this correctly there is a chance the virus may not decrypt itself at all. How could an AV catch this?
In some cases, the decryptor may start with a header whose intent is
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Detecting malware hidden in P2P traffic
Consider a network situation involving (only) Peer to Peer traffic in medium sized network.
For the sake of convenience, a simple P2P application like DC++ may be assumed, although I am aiming at a ...
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Find changes and modifications made to system by application or virus,
I would like to use either Hyper-V or Vmware to take a Clean Base snapshot and a snapshot after an application or virus has made changes so I can then see what was changed between the two images.
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How to check if a website is sending out a virus?
I'm a webmaster at a company without much knowledge of IT Security. We are running 6 computers connected to a central server that also hosts our website.
3 out of 6 people in the office have gotten ...
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Detection and analysis of unknown malware
Suppose I have a binary which is suspicious. How can I determine whether it is malicious, and if it is, reverse-engineer how it works and what it does? For example, maybe using static analysis?
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