>- Speaking of Thanks Man, Dylan Sides said this to Shaun Budding on 21 Mar 
97  21:35 -<
 DS> Anybody who wants to.  If you can program fairly well, you can write a
 DS> virus.  Although viruses with damaging payloads are generally written
 DS> by the same type of people who set fire to bags of shit outside
 DS> people's doors.. it's nothing more than mindless vandalism when you
 DS> don't even know who you're infecting.   Trojan writing, IMO, can often
 DS> be pretty interesting.  Especially if it's for a specific task, like
 DS> grabbing a password file. 
Hi Dylan,
   Well I wouldn't say "nothing more than"...but yeah, it's in the same
league.  And I have to agree, Trojan writing can be great fun!  At school
2 years ago, we had competitions - who could grab the most passwords, using
novell netware v 3.x?.  'Twas really fun.  Mine was the most accurate copy
of the "login" program.  Virtually everyhtin you tried came up exactly the
same as in the real program...
Steve
...  "Err.. I thought lions always land on deir feet!" - Rafiki, C
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