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Terms vs Unpacker - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and unpacker

is that terms is while unpacker is one who, or that which, unpacks.

terms

English

Noun

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    unpacker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, unpacks.
  • * 1977 , House & Garden (volume 149, page 168)
    • One great advantage of professional unpacking is that the unpackers take away all the wrapping and cartons
  • (computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.
  • * 2007 , David Harley, AVIEN malware defense guide for the Enterprise (page 408)
    • All packed malware consists of the unpacker code and packed data, which typically look like random data. The benefit of packed malware, from a malicious author's point of view, is that it cannot be analyzed until it is properly unpacked.