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- From: 72274.264@compuserve.com (Sergey Kurtsev)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,alt.2600
- Subject: Re: Need info on virus source code
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:07:26 -0500
- Organization: Hello, all.
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- In article <4f1gqa$gnt$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> dpmullin@ix.netcom.com <75604.20@CompuServe.COM> writes:
-
- Hmmm... Following letter sounds pretty truthfully... :|
-
- >Hello out there
-
- Hi and you.
-
- >Is there any way to obtain virus source code?
-
- WWW ?
-
- >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.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Wrong! If you don't know how viruses work - it'll be harder to understand
- what is written there. The best way to learn how viruses works - is to write
- virus by yourself - BUT nobody makes and wants you to emancipate ;) it.
-
- >I have seen most of the books
- >on the subject, but they have no source code.
-
- Sure they won't !..
-
- > 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".
-
- Never heard...
-
- > 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
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^ why ?
- ^^^^^^^ why ?
-
- Viruses are not very-very dangerous - they are only very dangerous ;) And not
- all of 'em. And why all people use such shit as McAfee antivirus ?
-
- >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
- ^^^^^^^^^ WOW !?!? :o There are 10,000 viruses in the world (and
- 10,000 more which are only in the collections)
-
- >virus writer because of the pain it causes to
- >people who spend their hard earned dollars on
- ^^^^^^^^^^ those people won't get sofware from nowhere
- >a computer system. I would like to understand
- >the the virus by looking at its source code.
- As I said ------ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --- bad idea :(
-
- >I write code in C/C++, assembler, and BASIC.
- ^^^^^^^^^ <:-o
- For how long?...
-
- >With the just the BIOS calls that are available
- >in assembler, it is easy to write a virus if
- ^^^^^^^^^ anywhere, not only in asm - Basic (poke), C/C++ (inline asm),
- Pascal (inline asm), etc.
-
- >someone were so inclined. I have no intention
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - All of those suckers (of course, there are
- real programmers - but only few) who are inclined to kick the shit of
- school's, college's, boss' or smbody's else computer - and what we get ?
-
- >of launching any virus.
-
- Exactly... :(
-
-
- > dpmullin@ix.netcom.com
-
- Good luck. For good info - look for Ralf Brown's interrupt list on the WWW.
-
- :)
-
-
-
-
-
- With all my wishes,
- Sergey.
-
- 72274.264@compuserve.com
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Sergey_Kurtsev
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