antidebugger
adjEtymology From anti- + debugger.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Preventing or inhibiting the use of a debugger.
- To understand how, and why, such antidebugger techniques work, it is necessary to have a closer look at how debuggers function.1996, Rune Skardhamar, Virus: Detection and Elimination, page 178:
- Antidebugger techniques are particularly effective when combined with code encryption because encrypting the program forces reversers to run it inside a debugger in order to allow the program to decrypt itself.2011, Eldad Eilam, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering: