A type of
virus that has been designed to thwart attempts by analysts from examining its
code by using various methods to make tracing, disassembling and
reverse engineering more difficult. An Armored Virus may also protect itself from
antivirus programs, making it more difficult to trace. To do this, the Armored Virus attempts to trick the
antivirus program into believing its location is somewhere other than where it really is on the
system.