Re: OT new virus

From: andy levy (andy-dml@levyclan.us)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 13:13:49 EST


Pindell, Timothy wrote:
> <Grampa Simpson voice>
> Whatever happened to the good ol' fashioned DOS boot sector virus?!?!?
> <sigh> Man, those were the days.
> Now, even viruses are bloatware. Back in my day, you could code a virus in
> less than 10 lines -of BASIC. It did cool stuff like make all of your
> letters fall off of the screen. We didn't have no stinkin 'internet' or
> 'smtp interface' and we *liked* it that way.
> </Grampa Simpson voice>

You probably also had an onion tied to your belt, as that was the style
at the time, right?



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