VXHeaven: Source code for classic viruses

https://vxheaven.org/src.php

by adamnemecek • 10 years ago

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jakobdabo• 10 years ago

Phrack and VXHeaven on HN front-page, now I'm waiting for a new 29A issue.

fungos• 10 years ago

Perfect, that would be really amazing! :D

jrcii• 10 years ago

All we need now is an issue of 40Hex, 2600, and the Anarchist's Cookbook.

stevekemp• 10 years ago

40Hex? That's a name that takes me back.

Thanks for the reminder. I should go reread some of their releases.

st0le• 10 years ago

yay z0mbie!

sqldba• 10 years ago

It's too dangerous to organise such a thing in this day and age of mass surveillance. When police are kicking in doors on the wrong people, flash banging baby, and otherwise shooting them dead with no accountability.

Simple virus possession, dissemination, and research is illegal, commercial companies get a pass because they're "good" and the government decides not to prosecute but technically they're breaking the law.

How well are some (now) adults with families and jobs going to fare attracting attention by sharing with the public in a hackerish way the government and other agencies don't want?

It's not worth it.

justinwr• 10 years ago

Oh the memories of collecting all those Vienna's...

HugoDaniel• 10 years ago

Barrotes ate all my floppies

http://vxheaven.org/vl.php?dir=Virus.DOS.Barrotes

nthcolumn• 10 years ago

I recall the prolific, ubiquitous but apparently benign form virus and the surrounding speculation as to its true nature and specifically whether the payload was only malignant under a 32 bit OS (which would not exist yet for 20+ years)? I thought it was just a Norton false-positive.

Any progress on this?

I also recall these viruses taught you about terminate-stay-residents, self-modifiers, boot sectors and how to manage your 8k of memory... everything really.

zub1n• 10 years ago

The days I used to use sub 7.

henrypenface• 10 years ago

That brings back some memories. Thanks.

stustu• 10 years ago

...bo2k, netbus, sub7! ahh nostalgia :)

thristian• 10 years ago

Wow, somebody weaponised[1] the EICAR test file[2].

[1] https://vxheaven.org/src_view.php?file=eicar.zip

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

VXHeaven: Source code for classic viruses

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