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Appending Virus
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Last Updated
May 24, 2021 1:35 pm
Written by
Vangie Beal
A
virus
that inserts a copy of its
malicious code
at the end of the
file
. The goal of an appending virus is not to harm the host program, but to modify it to hold the virus code and then be able to run itself.
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