Peter Ferrie
Virus Bulletin, 4 November 2005, pp.4-5
ISSN 0956-9979
November 2005
Download PDF (43.55Kb) (You need to be registered on forum)Cross-infector viruses demonstrate the flexibility of certain file formats. While some of these viruses have clearly been written to maximise their replication potential (e.g. {W32/Linux}/Peelf, which infected 32-bit Windows and Linux files, or the member of the W32/Chiton family that infected both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows files), most seem to have been written simply to show that it can be done. With the release of issue 6 of the RRLF zine in July (published on http://www.rrlf-zine.de.vu/), we received three new cross-infectors, each for a different set of file formats.