Peter Ferrie
Microsoft, USAEditor: Helen MartinAbstract
It’s not just graphic designers who can do interesting things with
the Intel MMX instruction set. Virus writers are finding ways to (ab)use
some of the instructions, too. Peter Ferrie has the details of
W32/Svar.
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