Re: QUESTION - Viruses & Shrinkit

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <Cw8xH7.MA5@crash.cts.com> shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)
writes:
>[...munch, chomp, yum yum...]
>All the viruses I know of are 8 bit. I don't think any native ones ever
>surfaced.

LOAD RUNNER is definitely native...it's got 65816 code in it, and it requires
space in bank $E1 to hide in and a Memory Manager to subvert.

>If I can dig up the disk with the program infected with Festering Hate, I
>might put it on comp.binaries if there is interest.

There are probably several people here (including myself) who are interested,
but posting it probably isn't a good idea.  All it takes is one immature
little munchkin reading comp.binaries.apple2, and we'll start seeing new
Festering Hate infections years after we thought the disease was eradicated.

               - Neil Parker
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