Photos: A day in the life of a virus hunter

The anatomy of malware

By Nick Heath, 9 October 2008 17:02

Next the team will unpack and run the malware on a computing platform to watch how it reacts.

Then, the analysts examine the inner workings of the malware using methods such as a port sniffer to monitor network traffic and by studying the list of processes running on the machine.

Photo credit: Symantec

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