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Simple Virus For Teaching?
ed1023 writes "Currently I am teaching a 101 class on computers. It is more of a 'demystifying the black box' type of class. The current topic is computer viruses; I am looking for a virus with which I can infect the lab computers (only connected to local network, no outside network connection) that would be easy for the students to remove by hand. Can the Slashdot community point me in any directions? Is there an executable out there that would work, or do I try to write one myself, or is there one that is written that I can compile myself?"
Simple worm for beginners!
Here, let me link you to an executable file so you can download it and run it on an entire lab of computers. It's safe, don't worry.
Windows? Fairly easy to remove.
We did the same thing in health class. The first part of the tutorial was really fun, the latter part not so much.
Note to tool462, stop using windows.
Thanks, dude. My virus scanner just started complaining about my browser cache.
Demonstrated how someone is murdered. I was glad I didn't draw the short straw to be the victim.
They're now serving life.
You can use an acetylene torch with just one hand, I'm sure.
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
I was surprised this didn't have the "What could possibly go wrong" tag. :)
Note in the question he did say "... do I try to write one my self ...". I've seen quite a few reports where someone wrote a proof of concept virus that was just a bit more virile than they thought, and it ended up everywhere. It'll lead to that "Oops, I thought I prevented it from doing ..." This is fun, we get a front row seat to someone making a complete ass out of themselves. I hope it doesn't cause too much trouble..
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Windows IT guys can be clueless. In a previous job, IT insisted on shutting down my machine and take it away for cleaning because I saved the EICAR test string in cygwin so I could test my Unix boxes' clamav with it. There was no convincing them that the string "X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*" wasn't a virus.
Not even my creds as the author of the world's first heuristic AV scanner, nor my certifications were believed, because Symantec Antivirus claimed it was a virus, so it had to be.
That ITs internal HP printers LCD panels suddenly started displaying "INSERT COIN" had nothing to do with this, I swear.
It looks like you're writing a joke.
Would you like help?
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Not computer related, but similar.
A friend of mine carried a pager years ago. I wrote a script to send a message to his pager every morning at 3am, saying "Low Battery".
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I decided to change the printer LCD panels to say "RADIATION LEAK" at my last job. It turns out we shared the printers with the sales staff. My boss thought it was funny as hell when a sales guy wandered into his office to complain about the printer leaking radiation.