system infection

Tools Needed for Writing Viruses

by

Viruses are written in assembly language. High level languages like Basic, C, and Pascal have been designed to generate stand-alone programs, but the assumptions made by these lan- guages render them almost useless when writing viruses. They are simply incapable of performing the acrobatics required for a virus to jump from one host program to … Read more

The Basics of the Computer Virus

by

A plethora of negative magazine articles and books have catalyzed a new kind of hypochondria among computer users: an unreasonable fear of computer viruses. This hypochondria is possible because a) computers are very complex machines which will often behave in ways which are not obvious to the average user, and b) computer viruses are still … Read more