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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: SpaceMonkey on 7 September 2002, 00:29
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On a neat concept, set up several machines (preferably nothing you spend any kind of money or time on) on a closed netowork load them up with trojans and viruses and such and let them duke it out. last PC standing is the winner. Interesting experiment for someone who has nothing but time on their hands.
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oh and to add flavor and diversity each machine should have a different OS from the rest. win 95, Win 3.1, Win 98se, XP, redhat, mandrake, Mac OS but then again there may be some network compatibility issues to work out.
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or, how about using the redhat box to use samba to share virus infected files. hell, just use kazaa for a day or two
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now your getting the idea
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Originally posted by SpaceMonkey:
On a neat concept, set up several machines (preferably nothing you spend any kind of money or time on) on a closed netowork load them up with trojans and viruses and such and let them duke it out. last PC standing is the winner. Interesting experiment for someone who has nothing but time on their hands.
are you one of those people that has rich heritage and therefore has the ability to do nothing all day and invent ideas like this? (http://smile.gif)
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Nope, im just bored at my daily place of employment, just like eveyone else.
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Get back to work before you et a bollockin' from your boss lol
Unless you are the boss, in which case you should chill out.
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do this at work with your fellow employees (http://smile.gif)
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Isn't this how viruses were originally researched, before they became public problems?
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No, you see virtually no internet user can create a virus. They say they can, but they lie(most "virus makers" anyways). Virus are the result of a military cyber weapons experiment gone horribly wrong. They would do much like this idea, use networked computers etc. This was in the early 90's, dawn of the internet. One day they were working on their new weapon, taking 30 years of virus and AI experience, tests went great. Then one fateful day someone fucked up with the security protocols, and the virus jumped through computers until it eventually escaped the military network and made it to the internet. Virtually all viruses that are out here nowadays are the result of randomly made attacks by this mega virus, which stealthily lives in many machines, utilizing a fraction of their bandwidth as launch pads for attacks, yet the usage is so miniscule, the user will never be suspicious. Part of the attacks are spent spreading to new hosts, the more hosts, the more damage it can do. The virus is an AI, not a program, if it used all it's powers at full 100% capacity(like a dumb, brainless program), it would do catastrophic damage, but then it would become apparent that viruses are too much of a problem, and the internet(and clients) would be redesigned, making it mostly neutered.(some theories say that the mega virus was attacking at near full power in the mid 90's, but had taken over so few computers that it was not an issue. In the late 90's it re-compensated to save itself)
That is the virus theory.(yes this is a joke) (http://smile.gif)