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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. 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? ;)

  2. 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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