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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. Re:Hmmm. by futuramarama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe the editors could scan and sort for emails with something like 'dupe' in the title .. and act appropriately.

    On the plus side, a duplicate article saves me from thinking new thoughts ... its sort of like a re-run of an old, dog-eared sitcom

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    "And that solves the mystery of the missing ring" - Bender