Re: issue related to viruses

From: Volker Birk (bumens_at_dingens.org)
Date: 08/20/05 

Date: 20 Aug 2005 08:57:27 +0200

vishal <vishalgrg@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking to find how virus are written and how they work?

A virus has two parts, a replication engine, and a part, which does
the (harmful) functions. They're just computer programs, and build
with build tools like editor, compiler, linker, IDE, $WHATEVER.

> Could someone tell me which applications are used to write viruses and
> how they are used, and how do the viruses work across different
> platforms and applications?

A virus is written as any other computer program. Unfortunately, there
are also virus construction kits, which make "point and click" to build
virusses easy also for people, who cannot program.

I.e. Sasser was build with such a construction kit.

> If someone could explain me, that would be great. else if someone knows
> online links on the net, that would also be a great help.

http://www.google.com ;-)

Yours,
VB. 

-- 
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deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
                                    Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"

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