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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. duplicate post by Bigbutt · · Score: 1, Informative

    duplicate. nothing to see here. move along

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  2. Some you win, some you lose by stevey · · Score: 5, Informative

    On the down side this is a duplicate article, on the plus side this version has a link to the Google partner version of the article. (So no login required).

    I guess this means that I can't gain karma by posting a mirror. Do you think I'm in with a chance of anything else? ;)

  3. Automatic virus creation is nothing new. by juuri · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been around for something like 12 years, IIRC, Nowhere Man of that funny group of happy guys at [NuKE] wrote the VCL (Virus Creation Lab) in 92 (maybe 93?). Basically it was a text based GUI app with windows and drop downs that let you design a virus and produced a working one ready for distribution.

    Today's viruses are absolutely pathetic compared to some of the older stuff.

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  4. Re:Hmmm. by keesh · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've reported at least a dozen of these and never once had any response. Has anyone ever had any luck from a daddypants email? I suspect they're devnulling it...

  5. Re:immigrants by kfg · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you pay the entry fee you get to play the game.

    Anything else is robbery.

    KFG

  6. Re:Challenge, schmallenge by Xenographic · · Score: 2, Informative

    The last worm that tried to fix a hole was buggy and caused more damage than the original.

    Apparently, these folks don't realize that the traffic from spreading the worm is a large portion of the damage caused.

    Perhaps they should read some of the literature that's rather widely available?