Is it possible to reverse engineer a computer virus?

if i have a virus on my computer that collects info from my machine and sends it to some one else is their no way to sort of open it up and change who the information is sent back to
is their not like some sort of line of code or something that has maybe an email address or something in could you not just change it to one that you want to

this probably isnt possible but i was just curious


2 Responses to “Is it possible to reverse engineer a computer virus?”

  • Fuzzy:

    A virus is generally machine code, so unless you have a good disassembler and know how to use it, finding the code is unlikely.

    You might be able to use a packet sniffer to capture the outgoing packets, but again, not easy. Besides, I think you should get rid of it rather than trying to tame it…

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