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Why would creating your own programming language for a virus be a good thing? If viruses are the only thing written in this language, wouldn't the language make
by Yxven 15y ago
Why would creating your own programming language for a virus be a good thing? If viruses are the only thing written in this language, wouldn't the language make it easier for the anti-virus companies to detect it without having to worry as much about false positives?
- Pjdog 15y agoI don't know, maybe they thought that the virus would be harder to remove, or perhaps the person created it to just to see if he could!
- cag_ii 15y agoIt may not have been done for that reason alone. NIHS is pretty common among hackers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here#In_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here#In_computing It also seems to me that a new language for this exact purpose is unlikely, however, it could very well be a proprietary or otherwise unknown language that may have been built for another purpose (internal company, domain-specific development, etc) and not often seen in this context.
- cjensen 15y agoNormally compilers compile each operation into a single destination machine code chunk. If you ignore efficiency, there are many ways to implement the same operation in machine code. A Cracker Compiler could contain multiple destination chunks and randomly choose one at compile time. Writing a detector for a virus with infinite code representations would be difficult.