Questions tagged [malware]
This tag is intended for older, vintage Malware (malicious software), a type of program designed to access a computer system without the owner's informed consent, usually for reasons of data theft or other destructive purposes.
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Has there ever been a pressed optical disc containing a computer virus?
I got 200 computer CD games here and I think checking them for viruses would be inappropriate. Also, when I bought software on CD I was always sure there is no virus.
I wonder if there ever was ...
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Why did Windows 9x allow ring-3 software to change IDT?
I was researching how old Windows 9x viruses, such as Win95.CIH, got ring 0 access, and it's shown that one of the approaches was to get the Interrupt Descriptor Table, hook the interrupt handler and ...
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What were the incentives behind WinWord.Concept computer virus?
I've just read this passage on the October 1995 issue of Virus Bulletin:
WinWord.Concept
The WinWord.Concept virus reported in last month’s Virus Bulletin has been found on at least one CD-ROM. ...
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What was the first computer malware that could infect Mac systems?
The number of malware that can infect Mac computers has increased significantly last decade (2010-2019), particularly scams (including tech support scams) and fake anti-malware apps. since when ...
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Are there any known viruses for CP/M?
Are there any (known) viruses for CP/M? Chronologically, CP/M machines fit into the time period of the first home computer viruses, starting with other 8-bit computers.
Given the hardware ...
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How many OS/2 viruses were there?
When I was in college, I remember IBM representatives trying to sell OS/2 Warp to students and teachers by saying that there were no (known) viruses for OS/2. (Of course, that didn't stop the makers ...
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Apple II: DOS 3.3 Virus?
Does anyone know the source of this Apple II DOS 3.3 virus that infected my disks back in the 1990's? I got it from a public domain disk collection that was given to me by a friend, called the ...
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Are old versions of Windows at risk of modern malware attacks?
On my answer to a previous question (Can I run Windows 98 and games from the same era on an AMD Duron CPU?) I finished with a warning about using Windows 98 on the Internet, which received the ...
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What was the first intentional malware that got spread over multiple machines?
I would like to know which program can be seen as the first malware.
To define the term "malware" in this question, I would suggest those criteria, but you may modify them if you feel the need:
real ...
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