Beyond Virtu(e) and evil

2007-05-01

Víctor M. Álvarez

PandaLabs, Spain

Mario Ballano

PandaLabs, Spain
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

While not technically a new virus (being modelled on the almost ancient Tenrobot family), W32/Virtu does introduce some interesting changes and new techniques. Víctor Álvarez and Mario Ballano describe this polymorphic file infector that also behaves as an IRC bot.

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