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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,alt.2600
- Subject: Re: Need info on virus source code
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 08:14:06 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4f1gqa$gnt$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>,
- dpmullin@ix.netcom.com <75604.20@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
- >Hello out there
- >
- >Is there any way to obtain virus source code?
-
- I once wrote a virus whose (assembly language) source code was heavily
- commmented, and was accompanied by detailed internal documentation.
-
- It is sitting on a 20MB Seagate hard drive in a junk yard somewhere.
-
- I never realeased it because it could have been exploited by the unworthy to do
- harm.
-
- >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
-
- If it's so easy, why do you need other peoples' source?
-
- >of launching any virus.
-
- That's what they all say... Once you get one working, you may change your
- mind, even if you honestly believe it right now. It will gnaw at you. That
- virus I never put out gnawed at me for years.
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