Polymorphic Virus

Polymorphic Virus definition - hacker
A virus that can alter its byte pattern when it replicates, thereby avoiding detectioin by simple string-scanning intrusion detection techniques.

See Also: Intrusion Detection System (IDS); Virus.

Symantec Security Response. Glossary. [Online, July 15, 2004.] Symantec Security Response Website. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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