Timeline for Has this method ever been used by viruses to check if system has already been infected?
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| Jan 21, 2015 at 23:46 | comment | added | Celeritas | "Of course, it becomes a great signature for anti-virus and other pieces of competing malware" right so that's what my idea was that if the marker used to id an infected system changes each "generation" then it would be much harder for the AV to identify an infection. | |
| Jan 21, 2015 at 19:55 | history | edited | Ohnana | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2015 at 19:52 | comment | added | Ohnana | Very true. Windows has mutexes at the kernel level. This way, services and drivers can yield to other processes and not make a giant mess out of your OS. I'll edit my question for clarity. | |
| Jan 21, 2015 at 19:33 | comment | added | Celeritas | I've this about mutexes before and don't understand what you mean. Could you elaborate? A mutex is a function you call to lock a resource and pertains to programming e.g. computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/#Mutexes | |
| Jan 21, 2015 at 14:10 | history | answered | Ohnana | CC BY-SA 3.0 |