The 2008 Malware Challenge
John Hering writes "With over 25 papers submitted, the results of the 2008 Malware Challenge are in. Malware has become an ever-present danger in today's connected world: The 2008 Malware Challenge was created to help increase awareness and understanding of the threat associated with malware by challenging contestants to reverse engineer and analyze real world malware from the wild."
It's so fugly it should be classified malware! Also,
"Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon" from Charlie Harvey
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
then check out the firmware for the first-generation Zune MP3 player! Shit fucking blows up!