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DETECTING UNDETECTABLE COMPUTER VIRUSES A Project Report Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Computer Science San Jose State University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Computer Science by Sujandharan Venkatachalam May 2010 © 2010 Sujandharan Venkatachalam ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY The Undersigned Thesis Committee Approves the Project Titled DETECTING UNDETECTABLE COMPUTER VIRUSES by Sujandharan Venkatachalam _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Mark Stamp, Department of Computer Science Date _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Robert Chun, Department of Computer Science Date ________________________________________________________________ Mr. Manikandan Alagappan, Cisco Systems Inc. Date APPROVED FOR THE UNIVERSITY _____________________________________________________________ Associate Dean Office of Graduate Studies and Research Date ABSTRACT Signature-based detection relies on patterns present in viruses and provides a relatively simple and efficient method for detecting known viruses. At present, most anti-virus systems rely primarily on signature detection. Metamorphic viruses are one of the most difficult types of viruses to detect. Such viruses change their internal structur