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___________ viruses rewrite themselves completely each time they are to infect new executables.
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Metamorphic
💡 Explanation:
Metamorphic viruses completely rewrite their code with each infection while maintaining functionality, making them extremely difficult to detect via signature-based methods. Polymorphic viruses only change their decryption routine while keeping the same virus body. HIV is a biological virus, not computer malware.