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The correct plural of virus is viruses, not virii.
The word virus is latin meaning "of man"... and may not be the correct spelling of virii but implies the "of men".... a direct connection to the hacker language.
Hackers, as a rule, love wordplay and are very conscious and inventive in their use of language. These traits seem to be common in young children, but the conformity-enforcing machine we are pleased to call an educational system bludgeons them out of most of us before adolescence. Thus, linguistic invention in most subcultures of the modern West is a halting and largely unconscious process. Hackers, by contrast, regard slang formation and use as a game to be played for conscious pleasure. Their inventions thus display an almost unique combination of the neotenous enjoyment of language-play with the discrimination of educated and powerful intelligence. Further, the electronic media which knit them together are fluid, `hot' connections, well adapted to both the dissemination of new slang and the ruthless culling of weak and superannuated specimens. The results of this process give us perhaps a uniquely intense and accelerated view of linguistic evolution in action.
Hacker slang also challenges some common linguistic and anthropological assumptions. For example, in the early 1990s it became fashionable to speak of `low-context' versus `high-context' communication, and to classify cultures by the preferred context level of their languages and art forms. It is usually claimed that low-context communication (characterized by precision, clarity, and completeness of self-contained utterances) is typical in cultures which value logic, objectivity, individualism, and competition; by contrast, high-context communication (elliptical, emotive, nuance-filled, multi-modal, heavily coded) is associated with cultures which value subjectivity, consensus, cooperation, and tradition. What then are we to make of hackerdom, which is themed around extremely low-context interaction with computers and exhibits primarily "low-context" values, but cultivates an almost absurdly high-context slang style?
and just to clarify all things.... hacking, cracking, and malicious code writting in any way is illegal in the US of A... as goes for sending eMail, chatting, and any other activity that has the possibility to share information like p2p... even if you are sharing uncopyrighted data (or atleast this is what the government wants).
There are plenty of virii utilities and tutorials on the web....
First though you need to protect the enviroment you wish to work in.
1. Set up a seperate machine with windows 98SE and turn off the GUI launch with Tweak UI
2. Install GoBack (so you can fix all those major screw ups)
3. Never use a floppy that isn't write protected.
4. Do not have the machine networked.
5. Spend lots of time studying asm code for virii before attempting anything.
NEVER use the machine for anything else... I have an old IBM with DOS 5.0 built into the ROM and it is non writable... which makes it a great DOS Virii testing machine... I do not code virii, but I do play with them and try to figure ways to remove them and test command line AV tools on them.
Also before playing with the virii... make sure you have all the AV software on your system removed... and nake a large collection of tools and toys on a CD for your use. This way everything is write protected.
as for where to get the tools, toys and tuts... look on google. Happy hunting and edjumecation (I think that is properly misspelled).
