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The thread discusses metamorphic viruses, with the original poster asking for a definition and protection methods. A respondent clarifies that they likely meant polymorphic viruses, explaining their self-modifying nature and difficulty to detect with signature-based scanners, while noting that modern security products can typically identify such malware. The conversation concludes with a link to a resource that provides further details and solutions for dealing with metamorphic viruses.
The thread discusses metamorphic viruses, with the original poster asking for a definition and protection methods. A respondent clarifies that they likely meant polymorphic viruses, explaining their self-modifying nature and difficulty to detect with signature-based scanners, while noting that modern security products can typically identify such malware. The conversation concludes with a link to a resource that provides further details and solutions for dealing with metamorphic viruses.
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I believe you mean polymorphic and it's a virus with an often encrypted payload which also will clone itself and make modifications to it's own code to help avoid detection. Generally speaking these types of viruses can only fool signature based scanners. Many products today can easily detect these types of malware such as Bitdefender or Webroot.
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Here is the details available along with cure https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/resource-center/definitions/metamorphic-virus
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