Explain how an appender infection works.

What will be an ideal response?


The virus first appends itself to the end of a file. It then moves the first three bytes of the original file to the virus code and replaces them with a "jump" instruction pointing to the virus code. When the program is launched, the jump instruction redirects control to the virus.

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