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Appendices
Exploit – a tool exploiting known vulnerabilities of an O S or
application to implant malicious code or perform unauthorized
actions.
Silly – this prefix was used to name simple featureless viruses
the with different modifiers in the past.
Suffixes
Suffixes are used to name some specific virus objects:
Origin – this suffix is added to names of objects detected using
the Origins Tracing algorithm.
generator – an object which is not a virus, but a virus
generator.
based – a virus which is developed with the help of the
specified generator or a modified virus. In both cases the
names of this type are generic and can define hundreds and
sometimes even thousands of viruses.
dropper – an object which is not a virus, but an installer of the
given virus.
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