Alternatively called a cavity virus, a spacefiller virus is a rare type of computer virus that trys installing itself by filling in empty sections of a file. By only using empty sections of a file, the virus can infect a file without the size of the file changing, making it more difficult to detect.
Security terms, Space, Virus
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