Re: A85: Assembly virus

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Subject: Re: A85: Assembly virus
From: Penguin667@aol.com
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:28:11 EST
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yeah......... everythingthing for calculators are retarted............
and yeah..........viruses for calulators are goooooood
that is a very stupid remark



>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.
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>There could actually be a use for a virus...at least if you wanted to screw
>up someone's calculator.
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>At 10:00 PM 3/8/99 EST, you wrote:
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>...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!
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>>--Matt Cooper
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