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IT news website Slashdot's report of Simile's cross-platform capabilities was met with the usual host of ill-informed, biased and naïve comments from users of the site.
IT news website Slashdot's report of Simile's cross-platform capabilities was met with the usual host of ill-informed, biased and naïve comments from users of the site, along with some well thought out gems - the most notable being one Alan Solomon's compelling response to the old chestnut 'do AV companies write viruses?'.
Simile's obfuscation was worthy of detailed analysis in the May 2002 issue of VB [pdf | html], and its new-found ability to infect both ELF and PE executables will be the focus of an analysis in the forthcoming issue (click here to find out how to get a copy). In the meantime, whet your appetite with Symantec's description of {Win32/Linux}/Simile.
05 June 2002
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VB100 certification
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Vista operating system, which still seems shiny
and new as well as a little scary (to both developers and users), as well
as the x64 architecture, whose ostensible compatibility with standard
32-bit software belies oddities and intricacies that developers ignore at
their peril. The announcement of the test brought a few surprises, as
several regulars opted to skip this one, but the majority of veteran
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