DRAGON@RCN.BITNET (11/29/90)
I am interested in learning what the different types of viruses there are. Some of their symptoms, techniques of infiltration, etc. I've read this list for a while (and even posted something about the Whale Virus), and want to learn as much about these viruses as possible. Forwarned is forarmed... Also, I know that many people who are virus-makers do so for malicious delite, for the most part. Just to be immortalized, I guess, or maybe they are sadistic? Anyways, I was wondering if anyone knows of anti- viruses created by other semi-malicious people who create them just to irrate the virus-makers. I don't mean manufacturers who create the disinfect programs, I mean someone who makes a program that is spread like a virus, reproduces itself, and only destroys viruses. Someone mentioned how the Stealth viruses will remove their presence from a piece of programming being used/scanned. If this is so, how are they dangerous? If everytime it is used, it just goes elsewhere, what harm does it do, except for accidental erasure of segments of a program? Although I guess that the extra memory would tend to waste disk space... What kind of field is out there for anti-virus programmers? Who would hire them, and how much computer knowledge would be needed? Come to think of it, what languages are most used to create viruses and the disinfectant programs? Just wondering. +---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ : : : : Robert Allyn Howard : As you go through life, you make : : The new voice of Free Arcadia : rules for yourself --like not : : Owner of the popular Dragon's Lair : aligning yourself with losers-- : : Writer of AD&D Fluff : --and sometimes the rules go out : : and other assorted titles. : the window. : : Dragon@Taylor.RCC.RCN.EDU : - Aliens vs. Predator : : Dragon@RCN.BITNet : #3, Dark Horse Comics : : : : +---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+