Parasitic Malware making a comeback

According to a recent McAfee threat predictions report , crimeware authors are returning to older techniques to deliver parasitic viruses. These viruses are able modify and inject code into application files on a disk. Software protection technology does prevent code injection and tampering threats, but ironically the virus writers are using their own protection technology to make their malware ever more difficult for AV providers to reverse engineer and deploy countermeasures.

-Vic