Kaspersky has released a new virus removal tool named KVRT for the Linux platform, allowing users to scan their systems and remove malware and other known threats for free.
  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    7·
    7 months ago

    Yes and if viruses use something like base64 encoding or other methods, the hashes dont match anymore.

    As far as I understood it, it is pretty easy to make your virus permanently un-hashable by just always changing some bits

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      The xz backdoor was a packaged file distributed with the standard packages though. It would be trivial to find.

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        1·
        7 months ago

        This is obviously not about this known file.

        It is about “would this scanner detect a system package from the official repos opening an ssh connection”