-=> Mocking David to Darin <=-
  (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 DD> My bbs has over 7,000 viruses in source format, all catalogued
 DD> and sorted. I am not a "sick puppy" at all. If you know anything about
 DD> .ASM, you can learn a lot more about things by looking at what they
 DD> are, and what they do, rather than just clicking on File -> Run.
 DD> Viruses and virus source code provide a valuable service to general
 DD> programmers and AV people. 
actually, virus source code is meaningless to av people... the source
code shows what the virus writer wanted to make, the actual executable
or a good disassembly of the executable will show what the assembler
actually created...
and as far as what you learn from running a supposedly virus infected
file - it is the second step in determining if it really is a virus...
... wash, rinse, repeat...
                   
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