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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:at the same time... by TehHustler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Er. hang on. I didnt mean to mod this as flamebait. Clearly, Internet Exploder sucks dick. Apologies my good man. :(

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    TheHustler
    http://www.elmarko.org/ - Useless bilge
    http://www.asylum-games.co.uk/ - Co-Founder
  2. Gun ownership. by expro · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We are still sending people into battle to kill for Bush's cause that are not old enough / responsible enough to own a gun for their own personal defense. 21 is the age for that, too.