Re: A85: Assembly virus

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Subject: Re: A85: Assembly virus
From: Richard Lewis <RichardLewis@CedarCity.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 21:46:31 -0700
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It isn't very nice to insult the new people.  There's no practical use for
it, but there isn't a practical use for the games people write too.  In
fact most of the things we program have no practical use, so gee, it all
must be retarded.

There could actually be a use for a virus...at least if you wanted to screw
up someone's calculator.

At 10:00 PM 3/8/99 EST, you wrote:
>
>...and were glad you can't
>Gee. I wonder why it hasn't been done before?
>Maybe because............................its RETARDED!
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>>Alright, I know this couldn't possibly work else it would have been done 
>>before, but why couldn't someone write code that would use Usgard's TSR 
>>calls to attach itself to the system and then wreak havoc with the 
>>system somehow.  My thought was perhaps have it increment a 32bit 
>>ocation, then read a 16bit location which is the less-significant side 
>>of the 32bit value.  If that 16bit value = 00 (basically.. the 256th 
>>time Usgard is loaded) then hang the system.  Or delete variables.  Or 
>>diddle the first 7 bytes of Usgard so that IT will hang the calc.  Etc.
>>
>>I don't have the mad skillz to do this, but if I did, I would!
>>
>>--Matt Cooper
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