[LINK] E-mail a saviour amid anthrax scare

[Howard Lowndes]

You will probably find that this is because these virii come from a common
virus developer kit.  I forget its name, but it is out there.

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rachel Polanskis wrote:

> It's fortunate, really.  Nearly all of the pervasive MS viruses
> which are really just VBScript and the like seem to all have built in
> flaws that stop them really being a damaging threat.
>
> To me it indicates just how dumbed down everything is becoming.
> In the bad old days, virus writers wrote in assembler, their payloads
> were measured in bytes and were extremely destructive.  Strangely
> enough these sorts of virus applications disappeared just as the Internet
> started becoming more pervasive.   Nothing to do with the availability
> of virus filtering either, as far as I understand.....
>
> Are there any stats out there I wonder, that confirm this?  Most of the
> popularly known virii these days all seem to be based around the same
> old windoze bugs and use the scripting host.  How many of the most recent
> viruses are written in assembler?   I doubt that many of these wannabe
> "hackers" have the skill, patience or vision to do so.   In a weird
> way, it's just another case of how unoriginal the world is becoming!

-- 
Howard.
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