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Re:virus programming

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 6:02 pm
by mr-t
:'(

Re:virus programming

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 6:48 pm
by elias
ever hear of a manual virus? some guy told me he gave out a batch file that only printed "delete sys.com or else this virus will destroy your system" it mgiht have nto been sys.com, but i know it was a vital file. it actually worked too. it was in teh days of DOS

Re:virus programming

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 9:01 pm
by mr-t
That sucks.

Re:virus programming

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 6:36 pm
by Andrew_Baker
Ah, the Hoax Virus... That's funny because it's not exploiting a flaw in the Operating System, but a *flaw in the Operator*!

That's Scoial Engineering, the true basis for hacking.

Seriously, though, those "agents" sound exactly like the kind of virii that I'm interested in. I've heard people mention agents years ago in stuff like OMNI, but they were referring more to independent applications (like web-searchers, before bandwidth made search engines faster, and people also had to use archie and gopher) than viral automata.

Last off, Stephen Wolfram (The Mathematica guy) recently published a massive-@$$ book about how he believes that cellular automata can be used to represent incredibly complex mathematical situations and stuff, so this seems to jive well with the viral AI concepts that are generall touted.

Re:virus programming

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 5:57 am
by mr-t
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Re:virus programming

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 2:21 pm
by Tim
Mr. T: why did you feel the need to post "..."?

Re:virus programming

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 4:04 pm
by mr-t
Because I did.

Re:virus programming

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 6:12 pm
by Tim
Well don't. It bumps the thread for no reason.

Re:virus programming

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 8:56 pm
by elias
i pity the foo(no pun intended :)) who bumps this topic

Re:virus programming

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:58 pm
by Ozguxxx
Why dont moderators lock this thread? I think this thread goes out of interest of this forum. You might say that I am not the right person to say this but... Anyway, just my idea...

Re:virus programming

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 1:58 pm
by Tim
Ozguxxx: you're right. This thread isn't fulfilling any purpose any more.