Hmmmm, nothing like a bit of nostalgia?

Somewhere I still have a 5.25" floppy from Norton, that claims to detect all 720 known viruses

I remember the days when viruses mostly spread via the boot sector of floppies. There was a kind of competition amongst the authors as to who could write the smallest virus.............harmless, as you didn't have room for a payload!

Back then there was no internet, no e-mail and the only things usually attached to a network were 5250 dumb terminals (greenscreens).

Melissa?...........David L. Smith.............. I downloaded his Poppy, Office 97 macro virus generation toolkit...........I took a look at the metadata and saw that he had used a copy of office 97 registered in his own name!

Lovebug............I was lucky there...........I added a little regedit to their logons about 6 weeks before, so it only opened in notepad
I guess things have moved on a pace in the past few years? you hardly ever hear of an honest to goodness virus these days?