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Friendship and an immortal virus
Yes, an immortal virus seems to exist … at least in comparison to the usual life cycle of malware. While there are lots of malware families with very short half-life, there are only few with a long life. Parite (aka Pinfi) – a real long-playing evergreen – is one of them. Parite will reach the 10-year milestone this October. Gosh! Ten years! Can you remember what your computer looked like ten years ago? Ten years is an eternity in the world of IT. Just try to list what has changed and evolved during this period. There’s the obvious evolution of Windows and antivirus software for starters. But, despite all these changes, Parite is still with us.
How I met the optimization and other stories
Hello again, I’m gonna tell you a story about an emulator that becomes 5x faster during one day. In the beginning there was an disassembler and a virtual execution environment. The disassembler liked the environment so much that they got together one day and the framework for our emulator was born. It was growing day by day, line by line – up to 20k+ lines of code – and here the “problem” begins.
File infectors – part 2
Hello in 2010. I would like to wish you all the best in this year and I hope that our upcoming v5 will be your good fella starting from this January. Let me resume the previous article “Buggy file infectors” - as the release date for v5 is getting closer and closer, I think it would be good to inform you what to expect regarding the file infectors cleaning. Version 4.x was sometimes criticised due to its lower ability to cure most recent file infector families (more on this will be written later in this text). Good news for you – v5 will perform better.
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