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Description The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses: The Basic Technology by Mark A. Ludwig PDF 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 · rating details · 6 ratings · 0 reviews 23 The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses has seen five good years in print. In those five years it has opened a door to seriously ask the question whether it is better to make technical information about computer viruses known or not. The computer viruses in The Little Black Book were fairly simple by today’s standard. All written in assembly language, two file infectors didn’t do much of anything except slowly infect other small programs. One simple boot sector infector, called Kilroy, never spread. It had a habit of landing in a place on the hard disk the PC used as book-keeping for your files. And that immediately killed everything, requiring a clean-up. However, the last virus in the book traveled around the world on floppy disks and diskettes. Dubbed Stealth.Boot.C, it was successful in the wild. A couple years after The Little Black Book was published I found from a colleague that it had infected quite a few PCs at the Washington Post. The friend remarked it was discovered because it often corrupted diskettes which were full of data. The virus hid itself by copying part of its code to the data sectors on these diskettes. And if the diskette was full or near full when the virus tried to infect it, data was overwritten and lost. Sharing Widget |