Compressors / Packers
Compressors or Packers are legitimate compression utilities
which will compress (make smaller) Windows® program files
- .EXE files. In a similar way to using a popular file compression
utility such as WinZip before e-mailing, compressors do
the same for executable files. However, unlike WinZiped
files, which require to be decompressed before loading,
compressed executables run in their new state. Because of
this, the executable will pass through any anti-virus scanning
engine because the virus signature has been modified and
the anti-virus software will not recognize it
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