More About Software Viruses Polymorphic Software Viruses In just a year production of polymorphic viruses became a “trade”, followed by their “avalanche” in 1993. The authors of viruses were competing not in creating the toughest virus but the toughest polymorphic mechanism instead. These viruses require special methods of detection, including emulation of the viruses’ executable […]

Software Viruses THE HISTORY OF COMPUTER VIRUSES I asked myself the question many times – “Why viruses on the Internet and where did it started?” I did some research to learn more about it… A Bit of Archaeology There are different opinions on the date of the first computer virus. The Nivac 1108 and IBM