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  1. January 19th, 2003, 04:19 PM #1
    johnjoe
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    Question Security Download

    I was looking at the Security downloads and ran into this "virii"

    What is virii?

    How can i benefit from these downloads?
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  2. January 19th, 2003, 04:29 PM #2
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    The word virii is the plural of virus. And for the benefits of downloading virii.....hmmm, no benefits, unless you wanna study the code.
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  3. January 19th, 2003, 04:34 PM #3
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    Thumbs up

    Thanks for your input... and no thanks i do not want to download a virus.
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  4. January 19th, 2003, 06:32 PM #4
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    a great many hacking tools are considered virii or at least some of it code appears in virus signitures. for instance if your downloading a trojan your AV software will pick it up for what it is. if a program can send out a DoS its considered a DoS virus by most AVs
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  6. January 19th, 2003, 09:49 PM #5
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    There is nothing wrong with studying malware. It can be very informative when done properly
    ie: see how it works, and how it does what it does. Just do so in a lab enviroment. In other
    words offline preferably in a small lan of your own. Or just take your boxen offline and let er
    rip. It is an excellent way to learn how these things work.
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  7. January 19th, 2003, 09:54 PM #6
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    hmmm, no benefits, unless you wanna study the code.
    once in a while, ill go through some old virus and tweak the source and play around with it until i get bored, its actually kind of fun
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