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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on July 05, 2006, 09:43:12 pm

Title: Today we celebrate.....
Post by: Kosh on July 05, 2006, 09:43:12 pm

....the 20th anneversary of the first computer virus :D

http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160200003

Title: Re: Today we celebrate.....
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 05, 2006, 10:02:42 pm

Also the dawn of the multi-billion dollar screwup that is Anti-virus software! 8)

Title: Re: Today we celebrate.....
Post by: Kosh on July 05, 2006, 10:17:41 pm

BTW, I also found this at the end of the article.

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And the list goes on. Word on the street is that organized crime is the source of much of this "nastyware," which takes away any charm virus writing may once have had. It's odd to wax nostalgic over the ethics of virus writing, but once it was done mostly for hacker pride -- unique ideas and elegance in design were the whole point. Now the field has reduced itself to causing destruction, stealing money and personal information, even extortion -- things no self-respecting hacker would stoop to.

So it is the mafia that is into this stuff now? Certain explains all of the phising that has been going on over the last few years.