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Old 07-29-2008, 11:51 AM
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Default Re: Virus Detection

I'm pretty sure the signature is not a sample of the actual machine code of the virus, but a hash of all parts. Your program is not strictly a virus, because it relies on the computer owner being stupid enough to run it; ergo, it's a trojan. A malware scanner will check if the file is executable, then take a hash, and compare it to the hash it has in its list of malware.
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