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Sikorski, Michael.
Practical malware analysis : the hands-on guide to dissecting malicious software / by Michael Sikorski,
Andrew Honig.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-59327-290-6 -- ISBN 1-59327-290-1
1. Malware (Computer software) 2. Computer viruses. 3. Debugging in computer science. 4. Computer security.
I. Honig, Andrew. II. Title.
QA76.76.C68S534 2012
005.8'4--dc23
2012000214
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