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- From: psand@eos.hitc.com (G. Patrick Sand)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,alt.2600
- Subject: Re: Need info on virus source code
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 19:48:20 GMT
- Organization: Hughes Aircraft (EOSDIS)
- Message-ID: <4f5mu4$rpd@newsroom.hitc.com>
- References: <4f1gqa$gnt$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> <4f2m0eINNm17@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4f2m0eINNm17@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
- says...
- >
- >In article <4f1gqa$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 guess if you are ***really*** interested in virus source code, and for
- a legitimate reason, you can contact the Sofware Engineering Institute
- CERT team (the SEI is on the web-they're in Pittsburgh, PA and closely
- associated with Carnegie-Mellon University).
-
- If you wish to understand the mechanisms of the viruses without seeing
- source code, buy any good anti-virus software--they tell you a lot about
- how they work in easy-to-understand terms to make you better informed and
- smarter (and more careful about putting stuff on your PC...)
-
- If you wish to create your own, focus your energies on more useful
- things, PLEASE...If you want a challenge, here's a good one:
-
- Fix up the various UNIX system termcap files so that if I choose VT100
- emulation for vi, I don't can use the same key mappings (pgup, pgdn,
- etc.) on any UNIX system...Don't laugh, they still don't have it
- right...and I laugh when the vendors say "Interoperability is here
- now"...
-
- Keep in mind that having posted this request to the net, it is now public
- knowledge that you have asked for such information...
-
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- G. Patrick Sand
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