Once that's clear, we will send it to the necessary application, be it a search engine or anti-virus software, or a stock search, or shopping, or FriendFinder - anything that can be plugged into this kind of platform.
Symantec is improving its automatic detection system by improving its heuristic engine, which evaluates program behaviors to identify potential virus risks.
The teams modified the virus binaries in order to change the signature, and several of the teams used a technique called "dropping, " in which a virus is injected into an already-running application and bypasses the heuristics engine.