Multipartite Virus

Multipartite Virus definition - hacker
Uses more than one Means of Transmission or more than one Means of Infection. An example is the infection of an executable program and the boot sector, such that a mutual re-infection can take place after one of the two infections is detected and removed, thus keeping the virus alive.

See Also: Means of Infection; Means of Transmission; Virus.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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