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Online Museum Displays Decades of Malware (thestack.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the looking-for-malware dept.

An anonymous reader writes: archive.org has launched a Museum of Malware, which devotes itself to a historical look at DOS-based viruses of the 1980s and 1990s, and gives viewers the opportunity to run the viruses in a DOS game emulator, and to download 'neutered' versions of the code. With an estimated 50,000 DOS-based viruses in existence by the year 2000, the Malware Museum's 65 examples should be seen as representative of an annoying, but more innocent era of digital vandalism.

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  1. Obilgatory XKCD by jfdavis668 · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/350/

    1. Re:Obilgatory XKCD by Psicopatico · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Just ask, it's already done.
      Check http://www.viruszoo.com/
      (And don't forget to check the FAQ, which clearly references xkcd.)

      To be honest, TFA references a MS-DOS era scenario, which is a little different.

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      Mastering the English language is fucking easy: all you have to do is to put an f* word in every fucking sentence.