Hi,
Just for curiosity; I wonder what is the most popular programming language to write a computer virus?
May the most popular one could be considered as the most capable for manipulating vital data and sources?
Thanks
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A long (really long) time ago that was assembler. Smallest footprint and you can do anything you want. I'm curious about the opinion of today's hackers ;-)
Of course I'm no virus maker. Just old memories about 80's ...
my2c
PS: By the way, I remember an interesting "game" that provide a sort of virtual machine. Each player had to code a "virus" in assembler. The winner is the one that erase the opponent code. Excellent. If anyone has a link ...
neuro
2009-11-17 15:40:53
This? http://www.corewars.org/
tarek
2009-11-17 15:51:22
Love that game, check it out if you havent!
mizipzor
2009-11-17 16:12:43
@tarek : Yes ! I think it's that ... I've coded the virtual env from the code given in a mag (yes, no internet at the time !) and I remenber the "redcode" name ... I had to check history but it seems to be the same thing. Thank you for the link ... @mizipzor: My last try was 20 years ago ;)Well I feel pretty old, these days ...
neuro
2009-11-17 16:40:05
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Create some rando commando powershell scripts, those things irritate me beyond belief.
Woot4Moo
2009-11-17 15:42:21
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I don't think this question really hurts anyone. One thing that I always wonder about though is that there are like 10+ major virus detector softwares out there and they are ALL competing with each other and they all know a LOT about viruses and so you'd think they are all creating the viruses themselves in order to put the other guy out of business... Am I crazy?
djangofan
2009-11-17 16:11:20
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A computer virus (harmful being) can be written in almost every programming language.
Most popular languages are C/C++ and Assembler programming language.
There have been (still are) many script languages used for this purpose, but those harmful beings that came out of it are called worms.
Secko
2009-11-17 16:16:17
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Visual Basic for Applications used to be pretty popular, back when it was common to attach macro viruses to Microsoft Word documents.
In general, I think high level languages working at the application layer have an excellent capacity for virus-like mayhem. Cross-site scripting using JavaScript, while not a virus, does exploit a similar type of weakness.
Spike Williams
2009-11-17 16:25:30