full-disclosure - MyDoom download info

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From: randnut at hotmail.com (first last)
Subject: MyDoom download info

> > to successfully unpack the program. All they really needed to
> > do was dump it from memory while it was running and they could've
>analyzed
> > it immediately with any disassembler.
>
>Forgive me, I am no assembly hacker nor much of a programmer,
>but would it be possible for a program to 'react' in some way
>were one to try to dump it from memory?

The program would have to use a device driver to protect itself from not 
being dumped from memory to disk. But there are ways around that as well.

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