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I once was the co-author of a virus that only worked on XP due to the OS having gaps in the kernel that caused the CPU to generate a file with random data in it, 256 bytes in size, then the CPU will copy and paste line 3, 4, 5, 15 & 80 into a new file and write that file to all possible sectors.
It was designed to "chop" the file so it would fit into any sectors it wanted to place it into. It would start when the bootstrap was loaded but before the bootstrap was executed the virus was executed first, and this was key to making the virus work, or when Windows loaded the virus would not work.
I forgot why, I think is was because the OS would not let the virus execute when there was many process threads, as the virus had 1013 threads itself.
So what did the virus do? Clogged the Hard Drive with random data then deleted the partition table and the kernel.
It was never relesed on the Internet and never will be, but I still have it stored on a 1.44MB Floppy Disk in my (mum's) wall safe at home.
The author died in a car crash in 2008 and I put a copy of it on another Floppy Disk for him to take to another universe.
It was the most complicated virus me and David ever wrote.
R.I.P David Rottaham, my best friend and a real computer nerd I bet you are now using powerful alien computers.
It was designed to "chop" the file so it would fit into any sectors it wanted to place it into. It would start when the bootstrap was loaded but before the bootstrap was executed the virus was executed first, and this was key to making the virus work, or when Windows loaded the virus would not work.
I forgot why, I think is was because the OS would not let the virus execute when there was many process threads, as the virus had 1013 threads itself.
So what did the virus do? Clogged the Hard Drive with random data then deleted the partition table and the kernel.
It was never relesed on the Internet and never will be, but I still have it stored on a 1.44MB Floppy Disk in my (mum's) wall safe at home.
The author died in a car crash in 2008 and I put a copy of it on another Floppy Disk for him to take to another universe.
It was the most complicated virus me and David ever wrote.
R.I.P David Rottaham, my best friend and a real computer nerd I bet you are now using powerful alien computers.
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