0x00: Preface Media, kindly supported by AV “experts”, drawn apocalyptical vison of desctruction caused by stupid M$ Outlook / VisualBasic worm, called “ILOVEYOU”. Absurdal estimations – $10M lost for “defending the disease”, especially when you take a look at increasing with the speed of light value of AV companies market shares, made many people sick. […]
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the Art of Virology 01h
In this part we will discuss the basic framework of a computer virus… The basics of a virus consists of two elementary procedures (others will tell you three). These are: a search routine a infection routine [anti-detection routines] The search routine This routine will have to be a more delicate one [but not hard to […]
the Art of Virology 00h
[ad] This is the first part (of many others to come) consisting of basic a introduction to different viruses, some terminology and other aspects required before starting to understand or write viruses. Definition A virus is (taken from Windows XP’s Help And Support Center): A program that attempts to spread from computer to computer and […]
zCodec Video Codec is a TROJAN
[ad] For those that didn’t see, there is a new all singing all dancing ‘light-weight’ Codec in town that is actually a trojan. Indeed it’s not the first time we’ve seen this kind of thing. The zCodec software actually messes with your DNS settings. Users looking for the latest and greatest video software may not […]
LiveJournal Advert Installs Malware
[ad] Seems like someone sneaked past the LiverJournal advertisers policy by only trying to infect Australian and European users. A certain advertiser (kpremium.com) – being sneaky and underhanded. It’s not LJ’s fault, LJ already disabled the advert from rotation. The ad itself is for a program that lets you download stuff – you know the […]