If the virus is encoded for the purpose of enforcing a copyright then it would be illegal to reverse or even attempt to reverse the encoding. That only applies to decompilation I believe, as reverse engineering ala AMD/Cyrix is completely legal under the DMCA as it involves creating from scratch a compatible system, rather than reversing a copyright protection in order to duplicate a system. That's just my understanding of course.
But even if the virus was covered under the DMCA I doubt any virus writer would be so stupid as to come forward against McAfee/Symantec/CA/etc claiming copyright infringement in a U.S. court, as that would likely result in their arrest:)
Much easier to just take advantage of the port 3127 backdoor and make your own anti-viral payload. Reverse engineering mydoom.c would be a good place to start, most of the work is already done for you.
Often times "being positive" is a simple choice of wording. Be a "yes, and" person instead of a "no, but" person. i.e. if a pointy-haired type says that the company's new windows 2003 servers will save the company money by increasing security, rather than informing saying "no, you're wrong, but installing openbsd might actually make a meaningful difference" try "yes, it's a definate improvement over the old NT servers, and if we can migrate some external servers to linux or openbsd eventually we could save even more"
when correcting anyone, not just your superiors, you'll get a better response by staying away from negativity, including words like "but" "however" "except",etc. which carry a subtle negative connotation irregardless of their context.
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Titanium has been cheap for a long time, it's machining the damn stuff that's so expensive.
If the virus is encoded for the purpose of enforcing a copyright then it would be illegal to reverse or even attempt to reverse the encoding. That only applies to decompilation I believe, as reverse engineering ala AMD/Cyrix is completely legal under the DMCA as it involves creating from scratch a compatible system, rather than reversing a copyright protection in order to duplicate a system. That's just my understanding of course. But even if the virus was covered under the DMCA I doubt any virus writer would be so stupid as to come forward against McAfee/Symantec/CA/etc claiming copyright infringement in a U.S. court, as that would likely result in their arrest :)
Much easier to just take advantage of the port 3127 backdoor and make your own anti-viral payload. Reverse engineering mydoom.c would be a good place to start, most of the work is already done for you.
when correcting anyone, not just your superiors, you'll get a better response by staying away from negativity, including words like "but" "however" "except",etc. which carry a subtle negative connotation irregardless of their context.