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Profile of the Mind of a Virus Writer
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."
...they're pretty proficient in VB.
...US Slashdot editors get tricked once again by the "news media" to post another dupe.
...by the DUPE virus!!!
Or have microsoft spend some of its goddamn money coding something that doesnt suck.
I think I've been here before... I've been told this usually happens because of a glitch in The Slashdot...
oh, wow... he wrote a VBS generator... how 1337... It's not even a real trojan; it just deletes files (at least it seem so from the article).
:)
When I was 17, there wren't any trojans that would come with source code. At that time, NetBus was pretty popular, so I wrote my own client-server trojan using Delphi. Since I was the ony person who had access to it, it was completely immune to antivirus software and that meant lots & lots of fun with school computers.
Ah, good old times...
...and then there were the countless dupes announcing the duped story...
eTrade SUCKS
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God is imaginary
Get the parents of these kids to start coding malware.
Parent: "Hey Vorogon32! That was a super neat idea to include multithreading in your latest worm! Awesome!"
Kid: "Awww Mom!"
Five lines with errors that I can see, so I guess you answered your own question.
"[A] high IQ is like a Jeep; you will still get stuck, just farther from help!" --Just d' FAQs, c.g.a
Heh, do you remember the "Help on Help on Help" (I think it was) in VCL?
:)
Basically, "Help on Help" told you how to navigate the Help system. "Help on Help on Help", was a very funny rant, detailing how to buy a gun and kill yourself.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
http://www.spth.de.vu/
"Aspiring young hackers?! Aspiring young hackers don't cut and paste other people's code."
:)
What did you expect when all these new worms are released under GPL?
"Stephen Mathieson, Detroit. The 16-year-old virus writer is dismissive of hackers who release other people's viruses: "The kids just cut and paste.""
So, we have a 16 year old virus writer accusing other hackers of being childish. Doesn't that seem just a tad ironic?
In this world nothing is certain but death, taxes and flawed car analogies.
And the password for VCL's installation was "ChibaCity"...
Wow how can I remember something like this?
If you want stiffer punishment, see this story.
You have just received the Amish computer virus. Because we don't have any computers, or programming experience, this virus works on the honor system.
Please delete all the files from your hard drive and hand-deliver this virus to everyone on your mailing list. Thank you for your cooperation.
The article is great, but anyone who thinks that VB is a great language for anything has some work to do... I know it can be made to do anything, I coded in it back in high school, but writing virus' in it? I'd rather code in assembly using a terminal for the blind...
Ah well, I guess I don't get it, not being a virus writer and all...
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
Well, VB's clearly a weapon of mass destruction and we should shut down the organisation behind it. ;-)
Take care.
Ken.Lewis
Aspiring young hackers?! Aspiring young hackers don't cut and paste other people's code.
Sure they do. It's called "open source".
Philet0ast3r's party was crammed with 20 friends who were blasting the punk band Deftones, playing cards, smoking furiously and arguing about politics.
this writer may know his computers, but he sure doesnt know his music genres.
Programming can be fun again. Film at 11.
That's easy, Bart Simpson with a Windows PC....
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
Yes, lets kill everybody we don't like with the internet mafia... What a great idea! Kill, Kill!!!
As a subscriber, you got to see the dupe before the rest of us!
I see from the stuff on his website that he doesn't comment his code. If he is an aspiring young hacker, he'll never be a very good one.
Decode these
i remember using something on an as/400. if you pressed help you got help on the page. help again and you got general help on help. help a third time and you got detailed help on help. help a fourth time and you got (in the standard location at the bottom of the screen) a red message reading "you are beyond help."
i took it to mean "you have gone beyond the help system" a lady i worked with took it to be rather offensive.