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The inner readings of malware
« on: January 14, 2006, 09:04:23 PM »
Hello malware fighters,

The inner workings of code integers in C/C++ programming can be changed in subtle ways by malware artists to work out of the expected to enable a malware vector to get hold. Coders should be aware of the traps that lay hidden in the way they work the code on machine level, just another representation of the same code can lead to for instance buffer overflows, bugs. Read the following article to have an idea what it is all about:
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/sample_chapter/article.php/c11111/
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