Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> What if the viruses you create are programmed to only work on a
> private IP range (10.254.127.0/24), or that expire after a certain
> date (say 1 week).
>
> Does that remove the unwanted moral hangups?

Most people in the AV industry would say that you created a variant, and 
now they might not detect it, and that's much worse (than spreading the 
original.)

Interestingly, I did pretty much exactly that with Nimda.A, in order to 
test a product I was developing.  Afterwards, I thought I would be a 
good guy, and submit samples to the AV companies.  I spelled out what I 
had done in the email.

I said something to the effect of "I made a variant of Nimda.A".

Most of the responses I got back were "That's a variant of Nimda.A.  We 
detect it as 'Nimda.A'"

Uhh... thanks.

                                        BB
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