Dark Reading: How Malware Writers Cheat AV Zero-Day Detection

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A researcher reverse engineers AVG's code emulation engine after easily bypassing other major antivirus software products.

8/4/2014
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

As an experiment, Kyle Adams wrote what he describes as "ridiculously obvious" malware that most major antivirus products ultimately failed to detect. The only AV product that caught his malware was the freebie AVG, whose code-emulation feature sniffed it out.

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