The virus thread

[HurricaneAndrew]

How is it irrelevent? This is the virus thead...

Also, Rhinovirus.

[Team 9]

How is it irrelevent? This is the virus thead...

Also, Rhinovirus.

computer virus thread. not disease.

[HurricaneAndrew]

That is not specified in the title.

[Team 9]

That is not specified in the title.

if you'd bothered to read the content, you would know.

[HurricaneAndrew]

tl;dr

I'm a lazy bastard.

[Team 9]

tl;dr

I'm a lazy bastard.

i've gathered that.
just read the context of a thread before going and posting in it.

[Badger]

The thread should be renamed 'The Malware Thread'.

[HurricaneAndrew]

Start being more specific with your thread names.

[Badger]

OK:

'The Thread that contains discussions and information about Malware and Computer Viruses'

[Team 9]

Start being more specific with your thread names.

stop being so lazy

[HurricaneAndrew]

Or maybe I should stop trolling since you seem to be too stupid to figure it out on your own.

[Team 9]

Or maybe I should stop trolling since you seem to be too stupid to figure it out on your own.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

It's in Software, that's all the clue you need

[Team 9]

enough offtopicness.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

I haven't seen that one before. Got any information on it?

[Team 9]

LSD.COM virus, it infected other COM files in it's directory. and hangs the computer, and displays funky colours.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

I don't care if it hangs the computer, it's going under amusing 8D

[Team 9]

this guy has a lot of great stuff on old viruses and the like: http://www.youtube.com/user/danooct1?feature=watch

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

The Pikachu virus is believed to be the first computer virus targeted towards children. It contains the character "Pikachu" from the Pokémon series, and is in the form of an e-mail titled "Pikachu Pokemon [sic]" with the message: "Pikachu is your friend."

When users open an attachment, an image of a pensive Pikachu appears on the screen with the ungrammatical message: "Between millions of people around the world I found you. Don't forget to remember this day every time MY FRIEND." It simultaneously sends e-mails to everyone in the user's address book, giving it the potential to spread quickly. It also adds the lines "del C:\WINDOWS" and "del C:\WINDOWS\system32" to the file "autoexec.bat", which is executed at next boot. The virus was not well coded, so it would give a prompt asking if you wanted to delete those folders.

Sounds like mailing worm











Hey guys! I found a Wabbit! You'll like this, it'll explain a lot to you

A wabbit is a type of self-replicating computer program. Unlike viruses, wabbits do not infect host programs or documents. Unlike worms, wabbits do not use network capabilities of computers to spread. Instead, a wabbit repeatedly replicates itself on a local computer. Wabbits can be programmed to have (malicious) side effects. An example of a wabbit is a fork bomb. The name "wabbit" is probably derived from Elmer Fudd's derhotic pronunciation of 'rabbit' in the Warner Brothers cartoons that featured him and Bugs Bunny. Like rabbits, these programs have an ability to multiply quickly.

This is what Creeper is, yet it's classified as a virus