[comp.virus] Viruses using Hamming

SWIMMER@RZ.INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DBP.DE (03/14/90)

Its true, the use of Hamming by viruses isn't very worrying- from
our point of view anyway. It is just a bit of trivia.

Vesselin told me the behind T.P. using Hamming in his viruses, was
to prevent hackers from patching his viruses. Unfortunately it
doesn't help much against those that dissasseble them. Of course,
viruses that do use Hamming have one adventage: they are less likely
to be modified, which make detection a bit easier (less variants).

Cheers, Morton
Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg