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- From: dpmullin@ix.netcom.com <75604.20@CompuServe.COM>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,alt.2600
- Subject: Need info on virus source code
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 05:39:22 GMT
- Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736)
- Message-ID: <4f1gqa$gnt$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>
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- Hello out there
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- Is there any way to obtain virus source code?
- All I want to do is to better understand how
- different viruses work. I think that the only
- way to understand these things is to look at
- the source code. I have seen most of the books
- on the subject, but they have no source code.
- I tried to gain access to a FTP site
- called "aql.gatech.edu" but was firewalled
- out. I heard that this site has information
- like what I am looking for. There is also a
- magazine that I heard about called "40Hex".
- Last fall my computer was attacked by
- a virus that goes by the name of "MONKEY_A".
- At first I thought that I was going to have a
- heart attack when the McAffee scan software
- found this virus. I was able to get a program
- that cleaned the virus out of my system thanks
- to a teacher at the local college I attend.
- What I would like to do is get the
- source code to this virus and any other virus
- that is available. I do NOT want to become a
- virus writer because of the pain it causes to
- people who spend their hard earned dollars on
- a computer system. I would like to understand
- the the virus by looking at its source code.
- I write code in C/C++, assembler, and BASIC.
- With the just the BIOS calls that are available
- in assembler, it is easy to write a virus if
- someone were so inclined. I have no intention
- of launching any virus.
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- dpmullin@ix.netcom.com
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