The Servile Software Decoder is supplied as a tool to assist in the reverse- engineering of IBM PC software, with special attention to computer viruses. Because of the nature of the subject, no guarrantees can be made that a program analysed with SSD will behave in the same manner when executed outside of the SSD environment.
Years of development and rigourous testing have gone into SSD, including testing it on hundreds of Shareware, freeware and commercial programs, including computer viruses. Some programs, by their nature, exhibit pecuiliar behaviour when analysed with SSD which they do not exhibit otherwise.