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Profile of the Mind of a Virus Writer

Posted by timothy on from the read-on-empty-stomach dept.

zdburke writes "Clive Thompson, writing for the NY Times, has profiled several young computer virus writers around the world. A young Austrian wrote a Batch Trojan Generator which has simple options for constructing your next virus: fomat drive C? Overwrite every file? It's very well written by an author who clearly knows his stuff."

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  1. In Slashiet Dosta by futuramarama · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The story dupes you!

    --
    "And that solves the mystery of the missing ring" - Bender
  2. Re:at the same time... by AllUsernamesAreGone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, if there's going to write viruses, they might at least have the decency to put some thought into it and make sure it doesn't have any bugs in it for goodness sake...

    (note: this is a joke, I don't think we should be teaching children how to write viruses properly of course)