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Windows Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the infectious-diseases dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Five proof-of-concept viruses that target Monad, the next version of Vista's command prompt, have been published on the web. Monad is a command line interface and scripting language that is similar to Unix shells such as bash, but is based on object-oriented programming and the .Net framework. The viruses' only action is to infect other shell scripts on the host's operating system. They would cause little harm in the wild, but would be relatively easy to modify using the information from the article, said Mikko Hyppönen, the director of antivirus research at F-Secure."

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  1. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by jest3r · · Score: 4, Funny

    Believe it or not but "Monad" wasn't their first choice. Other names which were seriously considered include: Mesticle, Menis, Magina and Mitoris ...

  2. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by starling · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yabbut if they'd chosen one of those other names the GNU version wouldn't end up being called Gonad.

    Sneaky, huh?

  3. More Windows viruses? by Lisandro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Awwww, crap guys. Let it go already. It's a bit like kicking a crippled at this point.

  4. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by NickFortune · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yabbut if they'd chosen one of those other names the GNU version wouldn't end up being called Gonad.

    Looking at the syntax, I think the GPL version is called Perl 6

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