Anti-Virus White Papers

Using Mobile Agent Results to Create Hard-to-Detect Computer Viruses

• Tags:
• anti-virus,
• viruses,
• signature,
• signatures

Overview The theory of computer viruses has been studied by several authors, though there is no systematic theoretical study up to now. The long time open question in this area is as follows: Is it possible to design a signature-free (including dynamic signatures which the paper will define late) virus? This paper gives an affirmative answer to this question from a theoretical viewpoint. The paper will introduce a new stronger concept: dynamic signatures of viruses, and present a method to design viruses which are static signature-free and whose dynamic signatures are hard to determine unless some cryptographic assumption fails.

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