Compression virus
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compression-virus-266-1614305
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Compression virus
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A compression virus is an example of a benevolent computer virus, invented by Fred Cohen. It searches for an uninfected executable file, compresses the file and prepends itself to it. The virus can be described in pseudo code The 01234567 is the virus signature, and is used to make sure the file is not already infected. The virus then asks for permission (ask-permission) to infect a random executable (get-random-executable-file). If the permission is granted, it compresses the executable (infect
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_virus
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2023-01-23T15:40:14Z
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