A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses

Re:A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses by navaati on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:54AM (#19399207)

Now wait until computer virus writers use the idea ! A virus distributing little pieces of its payload over several binaries !

Ah, that's probably common already…

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Re:A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses by s_y_n_t_a_x on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:54AM (#19400806)

I mean isn't that what a trojan technically does.

A small binary that embeds itself, opens a backdoor, and downloads more intrusive code.

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Re:A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses by 8note on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:48PM (#19403505)

but what about multiple Trojans at once, that each download a piece of more intrusive code, but it only starts up once all the pieces are available on the same network?

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Re:A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses by navaati on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:11AM (#19461016)

Yeah that's more what I meant by "distributed". Doesn't have to be over the network though, loads of side channels on a machine…

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