Information pertaining to the verification of the identity of, and reversal of, a transformation of computer data is derived automatically based on a set of samples. The most important class of transformations is computer viruses. The process extracts this information for a large, fairly general class...http://www.google.com/patents/US5485575?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5485575 - Automatic analysis of a computer virus structure and means of attachment to its hosts
