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anything that is injurious, destructive, or fatal

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(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts

a harmful or corrupting agency

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a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer

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computer virus

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malevolent program

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The polymorphic virus avoids detection by mutating itself each time it infects a new program; each mutated infection is capable of performing the same tasks as its parent, yet it may look entirely different.

Fortunately, the antivirus producers have responded, as they have in the past, with an equally creative solution to the polymorphic virus threat.

Computer virus - antivirus coevolution

There are usually two different parts of the virus when we speak of polymorphic virus: The crypto engine encrypts/decrypts the infector.

Defining a computer virus

A polymorphic virus hides itself from scanners by changing its appearance in each infected file.

Virus defenses for the future

A new polymorphic virus that works in a similar way to Love Bug has been discovered.

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