hahaha mike i dont need advice on how to get round the looking at porn problem. but thanks anyway, i'll save it for a rainy lonely day.

and whats the point in the internet if you shouldnt look at porn or listen to music?

HUH

boo viruses. unless you get them through looking at the wrong type of porn; child/animal/ugly etc

silvine says he writes viruses for educational purposes, his own education and those of other programmers. i think people mostly do it to show off.

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Actually, I'm not that skilled to write Virii. I can only write in C and C++ - a virus is written in 32-bit Assembler.

bollocks. you could write one with a shell script if you wanted. or macro languages. almost anything really. assembler may be the most common, but c is a good second best, especially now computers and networks have resources to burn.

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Ah, but a true self replicating virus will attach itself to a .exe - at the beginning of the file - find the offset to which to pass execution to the real program when double clicked - and before that infect a few more .exes.

Some are TSR virii too - Terminate and Stay Resident - infecting files when they receive a file open signal...

All of this is pretty hard to do in C or C++ unless you're a serious virus writer.

Personally, I dunno how to make a TSR, or hook signals such as the file open signal. I think the only thing I know is how to process program execution via a jump I believe to an memory offset. At least I think that is how it works?

Seriously, Kesh, no idea on virus writing. I really need to fill that knowledge gap - there is plenty of reading via virus zines over at packet-storm.org tho - something on my to-do list...haha--hehe--hoho