Re^4: Simple perl virus

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in thread Simple perl virus PoC

Added PoC to the title to show that this is just a proof of concept. Happy now? The virus in its current form would be terribly impractical anyway. One does not have to be a cracker or script kiddie to be interested in viruses. A cracker would have added a destructive payload to the virus, and a script kiddie wouldn't write a virus at all, but use someone else's.

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Re^5: Simple perl virus by bart (Canon) on Apr 22, 2008 at 16:26 UTC
There's the old adagio "know thy enemy". In my eyes, you don't know how to protect yourself very well against viruses (apart from using other people's virus scanners) if you don't have a clue on how viruses work — well somebody has to write the virus detectors, anyway... And that's what this is: a simple prototype of a simple virus, a proof of concept. And I like it that way.	[reply]

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