Source code viruses are a subset of computer viruses that make modifications to source code located on an infected machine. A source file can be overwritten...

computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those...

security advisory organizations and anti-virus software developers compile and publish virus lists. When a new virus appears, the rush begins to identify...

source code is exactly equivalent to its own output. Metamorphic code also usually outputs machine code and not its own source code. Metamorphic code...

existing program code, where it then writes its code, preventing an increase in file size; in that way, the virus avoids detection. The virus first emerged...

creating source or machine code that is intentionally difficult for humans or computers to understand. Similar to obfuscation in natural language, code obfuscation...

user published the sources of five Idera SQL products via BitTorrent. In January 2011 the "stolen source code" of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2008 was published...

The EICAR Anti-Virus Test File or EICAR test file is a computer file that was developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR)...

2011. QR codes hold up to 2.9 KB whereas the smallest known computer virus is about one-tenth that size "The Smallest Virus I Could Manage". Virus Labs and...

mutated with each copy of the code. This allows different versions of some code which all function the same. Most anti-virus software and intrusion detection...

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Chikungunya is an infection caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV). The disease was first identified in 1952 in Tanzania and named based on the Kimakonde...

genus Orthoflavivirus, which also contains the Zika virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus. The virus is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes, mostly species...

parts of their bodies including their faces and necks. The virus is also a possible source of myths about the jackalope, a rabbit with the horns of an...

Linux virus scanners generally use definitions for, and scan for, all known viruses for all computer platforms. For example, the open source ClamAV "Detects...

A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals...

nucleoprotein. The RNA genome of the virus encodes five genes whose order is highly conserved. These genes code for nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein...

August 24: Source code for MegaPanzer is released by its author under GPLv3 and appears to have been detected in the wild. November 27: The virus Kenzero...

polymorphic computer virus written in 1990 by Mark Washburn. Derived from Ralf Burger's publication of the disassembled Vienna Virus source code, the 1260 added...

Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows, Roger Grimes described Flushot Plus as "the first holistic program to fight malicious mobile code (MMC)."...

The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 3 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not...

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for spreading the source code of his viruses, Dark Avenger used the then popular bulletin board systems. In its variants, the virus also contained the...

and C++, able to detect many types of malware including viruses ClamWin – free and open-source antivirus tool for Windows and written in C, C++ Lynis –...

one of the most common viruses in humans. EBV is a double-stranded DNA virus. EBV is the first identified oncogenic virus, a virus that can cause cancer...

the source code of known viruses and virus-like activities. If a certain percentage of the source code matches with the code of known viruses or virus-like...

"Universal Source Code" by breaking a hole in the virus' body. They find the virus, a grotesque digital likeness of Ice King's head, eating pieces of source code...

Acid is a computer virus which infects .COM and .EXE files including command.com. Each time an infected file is executed, Acid infects all of the .EXE...

Stoned is a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the first viruses and is thought to have been written by a student in Wellington...

source code. The computational step when an assembler is processing a program is called assembly time. Because assembly depends on the machine code instructions...