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antidebugger

antidebugger adjective: preventing or inhibiting the use of a debugger.

Adjective

antidebugger (not comparable)

  1. 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

Origin of antidebugger

From anti- + debugger.

Questions about antidebugger

What does antidebugger mean?
Antidebugger means preventing or inhibiting the use of a debugger.
What part of speech is antidebugger?
Antidebugger is an adjective.

Words near antidebugger in the dictionary

  1. antidazzle
  2. antideadlock
  3. antideath
  4. antidebate
  5. antidebt
  6. antidebugger
  7. antideconstructionist
  8. antideconstructionists
  9. antidecuplet
  10. antidecuplets
  11. antideer

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