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Stealth virus is stealthiest of all
By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk)
Published Wednesday 14th July 2004 09:31 GMT


There's a new mass mailing virus in town, and it's built to make life
even more difficult for anti-virus researchers.
[...]
A possible bug, related to the way Atak checks its activation date,
prevents it from being run in a "sandbox". A sandbox is a virtual
environment commonly used by AV researchers to look at the behaviour of
malware in a safe place.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/14/atak_stealth_virus/print.html

-- 
Joe Klemmer 
Unix System/Network Administrator & Ad Hoc Programmer