Re: virus code is never executed - virus or not?

Rainer Link <rainer-pBPPa8WU5k41Tgt60Rntydi2O/[email protected]> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:08:07 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.openantivirus.general
Organization http://www.reniar.de/
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Michel Messerschmidt wrote:

> If you decide to report nothing, you shoud at least take care that the
> file really can't replicate (no entry point obfuscation, ...).
> I would prefer to report something like:
>         <classification>
>           <unknown>
>             <property>
>               may be a corrupted file
>             </property>
>             <property>
>               contains inactive virus code
>             </property>
>           </unknown>
>         </classification>
> (actually just a copy/paste from my current work :-)

Current work? Diploma thesis? --verbose, please :-)

Thanks.

cheers, Rainer




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