[comp.virus] Virus source available in Toronto

rwh@me.utoronto.ca (Russell Herman) (10/24/89)

Disassembled source code for the PC virus producing a bouncing ball
onscreen just appeared on a major Toronto BBS.  It does not appear to
be quite correct, nor will it assemble nonfatally with either MASM 5.1
or TASM 1.0.1 (small comforts).  Furthermore, the comments are in
Portugese, although the file was dubbed "italiano.asm".

Now the world has been given the template for an infector (sigh).

[Ed. The book "Computer Viruses: A High Tech Disease", published by
Abacus, contains several (functional) source code examples, in various
languages on various hardware/software platforms, of viruses.  This
book is readily available in bookstores and from the publisher.]

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