Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gremlin Newsgroups: alt.computer.workshop Subject: Re: Toadie virus - a video demonstration! Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:20:40 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:20:40 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="126f3a490b7a832525a13a05f35821d2"; logging-data="2777951"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ynCK7UrFWMtNjEmDdFr59qgwDOOwhKOI=" User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YG36p91JbQiJ53A+RVq2pqzn/A4= Bytes: 3250 pothead news:uqqfm3$enu3$1@dont-email.me Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:26:11 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: > On 2024-02-17, Gremlin wrote: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtSJArqx_ZE >> >> This isn't my video, AND, until this morning, I didn't know it existed. >> I found it by accident, but, after viewing; found it worth sharing. >> >> Now, those who are interested, can see some of what the Toadie virus >> would actually do on an infected windows 98 machine. I don't know which >> variant he's running, or where he sourced the infected bins; but, most >> of what you're seeing in the video is how Toadie operates. The comments >> section is also worth examining. Sadly he either didn't know about the >> limmerick payload or just didn't have time to trigger it for the video. >> You can read them here though: >> >> https://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/toadie.shtml >> >> >> On a supported NT or Os2/Warp environment, you would still get the DOS >> looking screen, but nearly all of your apps would work; usually without >> issue. >> >> As for the kernel corruption issue he experienced, that wasn't the >> result of Toadie. The majority of my viruses after the Weed family had >> a table of specific file names to avoid infecting due to >> incompatibility with them and it's infection method. >> >> PS: Tim, this is even older code than my Irok. You assumed our >> programming/coding skills were the same? :) Bad assumption on your >> part, there, "mate" >> - We aren't even reading from the same book. Your actual >> electronics knowledge is probably surface level too. As that also >> requires logic and understanding of logic. > > Very interesting! I thought so as well. Crazy to think that code being shown in the video is nearly 25 years old, too. Damn. I know i've been into the stuff i'm into for a long time, but, didn't really think about it so much in terms of being measured by decades. But when you see something you wrote being shown on video, and they remind you how long ago it was that you wrote it; well, it makes you think about things... ya know? -- My entire life can be summed up in one sentence... "Well, that didn't fucking go as planned."