Here is the example binary, it's streams of machine code. It's actually in Portable Executabe (PE) format. I'm not sure how to figure out whether there is structure or not (in the context of line breaks, etc...)

All that being said, I just realized my approach needs to be modified to basically take my defs, for example (say we are looking for <>,4044484<4@4D4H4</code> within streams, which do have an end, I just haven't figured out how to find them yet.

I see I actually want to do a match /,4044484<4@4D4H4/ on each line as opposed to comparing them. Which I can handle that. My part that I still am having trouble grasping is how do I treat this binary data? I think I'm just used to always working with text so this binary is throwing me off.

Hope this helps you guys help me.... (See "virus.a" below (but cut wayyy short)

JP

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