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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: VCL? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0007.9211091912.AA05064@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 2 Nov 92 14:59:11 GMT
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- hps@sdf.lonestar.org (Holt Sorenson) writes:
-
- > VCL is a Borland IDE based "Virus Creation Laboratory" that creates
-
- Don't blame Borland for what it not their fault. VCL is created with
- Borland's TurboVision, that's why it resembles to Borland's IDE. What
- you are saying seems to imply that Borland is somehow involved in the
- creation of this stupid piece of malware that is VCL.
-
- > poorly optimized, inefficient overwriting .COM and .EXE infectors.
-
- It creates buggy, usually not running, not optimized at all, stupid
- overwriting .COM infectors. Some of them can overwrite just all files
- (*.*), but this does not mean that they can correctly infect EXE files
- (i.e., without damaging them). It can also produce lame trojan horses.
- It also tries to produce companion viruses, but they don't work.
-
- > You can get ahold of it on most virus bbs's or from a virus writer or
- > an anti-virus buff who would trust you with it. If you understand
-
- The above is a totally unfounded flame against the honest anti-virus
- researchers. You have already posted it twice. If you have any facts,
- please speak up. But facts only, please.
-
- > Assembly it is possible to patch the code and create virii and some of
- > the code is sound enough to create a virus with. Compared to the
-
- You mean, if you are good enough in assembly language, you might find
- the bugs in the viruses that VCL generates and eventually fix them. I
- mean, fix the viruses, because you cannot fix the VCL program itself -
- it's too buggy for that. But why bother? Anybody who is able to fix
- those bugs should be able to write a virus himself, instead of using
- the stupid things that VCL generates... :-)
-
- > current technology available in the virus world it is outdated.
-
- It has already been outdated, when it has been released... :-)
-
- > Unfortunately, the author has promised to release a second version
- > which is supposed to have several improvements that will make it more
-
- Ah? Maybe he will be able to make a proper install program the next
- time... The current installation procedure is buggy.
-
- > fun for researchers to play with. I doubt it will create any serious
- > problems though. The release will probably be in January or Feruary of
-
- Of course, it doesn't create any serious problems. The only serious
- problem is the trend - it's much harder to deal with 2,000 virus
- creation tools than with 2,000 viruses... Fortunately, it is much
- harder to write a working virus creation tool than it is to create a
- working virus...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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