My l33t VIRUSES
I’m at home in Columbus right now and I was digging through my old papers and found this little collection of floppy disks containing all of my cracking warez. As I recall, I wrote the viruses on the VIRUSES disk from a book by Cue Publishing (??) and BlueBoy was supposed to be a wardialer and the name was based on BlueBoxing, which I read about in an article on Kevin Mitnick in PC Magazine. You’ll also appreciate that I had no idea what Blue Boy was at the time and marvel at my wide-eyed innocence. I also believe that the virus on the VIRUSES disk actually fried my Packard-Bell at the time.
The virus, I think, actually prepended itself to executables and when you ran the executable it ran the virus code then wrote the actual executable to a temporary file and then ran that temporary file. Pretty ingenious, right? Unfortunately, I didn’t set the payload right and it started erasing my system files. Those were the freaking days, right?
Ah yes, I remember when you posted Blue Boy to one of the BBSes in town. I also remember the angry follow up posts that accompanied it, when several of the more eager users tried it out.
Remember that system password program you and I wrote? Essentially if you guess wrong it when into an infinite loop. I actually used it my first semester in college to keep my roommate off my computer. I think I still have that on a floppy some place.
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