Off Topic: Re: Virus got through my system: sorry!

[Scott]

According to the self-professed author, he has almost no knowledge of any 
programming language, he just downloaded a virus toolkit off the internet 
and used it to create a variant on an earlier virus. The stealthing and 
such came with the toolkit.

Scott

At 09:36 14-02-01 +0100, Aleksander Mierzwa wrote:
>I'm bothered by the fact how easy it is nowadays to write a virus that will
>spread around the world and cause so much trouble. In the good old times,
>creating a virus required extensive knowledge of operating systems and good
>assembler programming skills. Are there any programmers on the list? Have
>you actually looked at the code of the virus? It's so darn simple (despite
>the author's pathetic attemtps to make it difficult to read) anyone with a
>basic knowledge of COM architecture could write this.