[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Yup, looks easy enough to change. I don't recognize the language
> (something akin to Basic, perhaps), but could probably reverse-engineer
> enough of it from that code snippet to play with it myself, if I wanted
> to waste time doing that sort of thing. (IMO it's rather pointless,
> since users of Microsoft Word already *have* viruses on their system --
> W95, W98, Word, Office, etc. :)
After reading about it in the press, all day, and on the web, I've come to
the conclusion that there's no doubt whatsoever that the goal of the
virus's author was to demonstrate the flawed technical foundation of the
Windows OS. If the author really had malicious intensions in mind, the
damage would've been far, far, greater.
The only reason something like this hasn't happened sooner is because MS
charges prohibitive fees for technical information that's needed in order
to write applications of this type, and only people who paid hefty sums of
money for subscriptions to MSDN, and various other MS developer programs,
would know enough to cook this up.
--
Sam
