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Article: Oregon Inventors Develop Computer Virus Definition Records Distribution System

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June 14, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Victor Kouznetsov of Aloha, Ore., and Andrei Ushakov of Hillsboro, Ore., have developed a system and a method for distributing portable computer virus definition records with binary file conversion.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more virus definition records are stored into a structured virus database. Each virus definition record includes an identifier uniquely identifying a computer virus, at least one virus name associated with the computer virus, a virus definition sentence comprising object code providing operations to detect the identified computer virus within a computer system, and a virus removal sentence comprising object ...

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