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64 Bit Virus
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Author: Richard S. Westmoreland
Permalink: 20040828100418173
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Virus Alerts
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As the market moves toward a 64-bit computing architecture, so do the virus
writers. But they may find that being the first to write such viruses are going
to put them at greater risk of being caught (which is good news for us!)
More information about the first 64 bit virus discovered by Symantec, labeled
W64.Rugrat:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/34077.html
A newer virus has just been found, called Shruggle. It tries to infect
PE (Windows Portable Executables) files. However Shruggle is not harmful
to 32 bit operating sytsems, unless 64 bit emulation is running.
More info about Shurggle can be found here:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w64.shruggle.1318.html
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