Part Two - Camouflage .NETting
(World News Science)

Click here for part one of this series: `Security, Performance, Obfuscation & Compression`. Since its introduction the majority of malware authors have shunned .NET as a development platform, despite its relative popularity as a platform for developing legitimate Windows software. There are numerous potential reasons for this, but two in particular that likely have a significant influence on malware authors are .NET code`s reliance on external libraries (few people are likely to want to install a specific version of the .NET Framework in order to support someone trying to steal their banking details) and - as discussed in the first part of this series - the ease with which it can be...