Does a Polymorphic engine have any other uses besides writing viruses?

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Does a Polymorphic engine have any other uses besides writing viruses?

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It can be used to protect your application against crackers/reverse engineers.

OTHER TIPS

It can be used to tailor a particular piece of javascript for a particular user-agent / version.

Polymorphic engines are written to challenge scanners looking for digital prints. The purpose is to change the print without modifying the behavior of the program, or data.

You could, for instance, apply a polymorphic engine on a copyrighted program, and then bypass a trial for pirating :)

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