______________ | ___ ___ | | |_ | | _| | ______ ______ |___| | | |___| |_ _| / \ | | | | | /----\/ | | | | | | | | | | | | ___ | | | | __ | | <_ | Issue #:062 _| |_ _| |_| | | \___/ | Date:06\19\96 |______| () |_________| () \________/ () _ / / \ \ _ / _ / THE LONE GUNMEN Presents: \ _ \ | | | | | | A Tid Bit On Viruses | | | | Written By: Dark Raven | | | | | | | | | | | \____________________________________/ | \________________________________________/ ********************************STOP****************************************** *** In this day and age, anyone can get there hands on text philez and that*** *** means that even the yuppie kids, who don't follow directions, can (and *** *** will probably blow there faces,hands,fingers,noses,legs,nipples,and P-P*** *** blown off, so before you continue read the File "DISCLAIMER!" that was *** *** included in the .ZIP file. it basicly says that you cant sew me if you *** *** get fucked. ************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** Ever since computers have been around there were viruses. A virus is a small program that infects all sorts of computer files. The virus is passed by putting copies of itself in other files. The virus is then usualy executed when that file is loaded into memory, and it spreads & spreads and so forth. Viruses are made by people and are usually made for damaging your computer system. Eventhough there are viruses that don't do damage and there sole purpose in life is to spread, they can get anoying. An example of a virus that doesn't do damage but pisses you off if you do a virus check expecial with Microsoft Anti-Virus ( which sucks) is the tai-pan virus. This virus goes and infects .exe files under 64k and spreads through out you pc system. There are different forms of viruses, and a popular one is a Trojan Horse. A Trojan Horse is by definition is a destructive program disguised as a game, util,or an application. When this "application" or "game' is ran a Trojan horse will do something to mess your system up while you think it is running a game or doing something useful. Another really nasty virus type is called a worm its a virus that breeds itself accross computers usually by copying itself in each computers memory. If a worm begins to duplicate itself so often in a system it may cause the system to crash. There are many forms of viruses boot viruses, file viruses, and the one you all ready know about the Trojan virus.. A random example of a file virus is the Friday the 13th virus, this virus infects .com and .exe files and is 1808 bytes long and changes the system run time and also corrupts programing. An example of a boot virus is the Big Italion. This virus is 1024 bytes long and infects the boot sectors of disks and hard drives. It also remains resident in memory. Now basic virus protection can be uptained by the standard Microsoft Anti-Virus that comes with DOS, but it isn't that good. One thing about viruses is that new ones come out daily thousand and thousands a month. A virus can not affect you hard drive in code form nor in exe form but if the infected exe file is executed it will infect your hard drive. A virus can also be contained in a zip file.Well anyway like I was sayin MSAV sucks so get somethin else anything else that is released on a regular basis. Many people collect viruses and many make them.. I myself have a virus collection and I think it is great to collect viruses. It is a good way to get even with someone (heheh). If yah fool with viruses be prepared your own may turn on you... Since this is my first work I through a little help out to all you learning hackers and virii people by containing a list of acronyms in acro.com designed by me with the help of Mulder.. I am a firm supporter to ThE X-Philez BBS and all H/P/A/V people.. Well Thats all this is Dark Raven signin off.. c-yah SAUCE00A Tid Bit On Viruses Dark Raven ThE Lone Gunmen[TlG]19960614XPT