Virus Question

[Dayo312]

I was curious.

Are all virus's illigal?? Even ones that
just multiply ; dont do any harm??
What are the rules on that???
I was gonna make a lil virus that didnt
multiply and put it on my friends computer
to make sure he didnt reset anything out
of order and too appear and tell her hi
once and a while..
Is that evil? Doesnt sound like it too
me.

[ravcam]

Hmmmm... not all virus are bad... although weather or not they are illegal is an other question. I know our school uses a trojan to find and illiminate games on certain computer systems.

[BHostmeyer]

I wrote a virus to go out and kill the ILOVEYOU virus i guess its not a bad thing if you use it corectly.

I think it depends on how the person recieveing it will ake it. If it harms him (for whatever reason) or his computer, then it's an evil scam...

You know what'd be nice? A computer virus..very strong that eats all other viruses. Almost like in Star Wars: Episode 1, "There's always a bigger fish." I dunno...that was just on my mind..had to get it out, heh.

[Sam Finch]

I heard that before the millenium there were 2 seperate viruses going round fixing the millenium bug.

they must have done a good job, I hardly heard of any Y2K problems apart from British Telecom's crash!

Not really wossname, the Y2K problem was already taken into concern by Microsoft in about 1995. Plus, computer's still work even with the two digits (00). Wonder what scare's gonna be next? Alien's invading computers?

[Dayo312]

lol,

Probably... My computer was never treated
for Y2K and it works just fine.. how bout
yours?

[Sire]

The millenium problem was "bullshit"!!!
Viruses is illegal if you use them for an illegal purpose but I guess if you work in Microsoft and has as a mission to destroy the ILOVEYOU virus it is ok.

[Doomstar]

to all you guys, a virus is a program that harms your computer, so if you make a 'virus' that finds and destroys other ones and that's it, you don't have a virus at all.
oh, and for your question, Dayo312, if a program harms a computer, that's illegal. i believe that it's called computer vandalism or something like that. so yes, viruses are illegal
hope this helps,

[Edited by Doomstar on 05-06-2000 at 01:52 PM]

[Sam Finch]

I think the next scare is the fifth of June 2099 when one of SQL Servers dates runs out, that's my 99th birthday so hopefully I'll be retired by then.

[keetsh]

Hi there...

Well I've made a program that could actually be a virus (written in C++). It actually takes control of your mouse cursor and makes it describe algebric functions... kinda funny )

Well... don't play around badly with that stuff!

See you,

keetsh®