VBS Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:19:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 The old days of viruses https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-old-days-of-viruses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-old-days-of-viruses https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-old-days-of-viruses/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:07:00 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5108 Blogging pioneer John Dominik, inspired by my Michelangelo memories, wrote about his memories of viruses later in the decade. So now I’ll take inspiration of him and share my memories of some of those viruses. I searched my archives, and

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-old-days-of-viruses/feed/ 2 5108 The best week of my life revisited https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-best-week-of-my-life-revisited/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-best-week-of-my-life-revisited https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-best-week-of-my-life-revisited/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2002 05:13:26 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=335 Well, I got word this week that my first video of significant length landed on the desk of the founder of Adventures in Missions. And he liked it.

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-best-week-of-my-life-revisited/feed/ 2 335 Deja vu all over again https://dfarq.homeip.net/deja-vu-all-over-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deja-vu-all-over-again https://dfarq.homeip.net/deja-vu-all-over-again/#comments Wed, 09 May 2001 16:04:18 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=766 In case you haven't heard about it elsewhere, there's another VBS-based worm floating about, similar to the Anna worm earlier this year. This one includes a template called homepage.html.vbs. It e-mails itself to everyone in your address book, then opens one of four adult websites in your browser.

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/deja-vu-all-over-again/feed/ 7 766 LoveLetter is just a symptom of worse things to come https://dfarq.homeip.net/loveletter-is-just-a-symptom-of-worse-things-to-come/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=loveletter-is-just-a-symptom-of-worse-things-to-come Sun, 07 May 2000 15:37:21 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=971 The virus parade continues. I saw some really disturbing speculation on BetaNews today. Of course there's the news of 10 variants on VBS.LoveLetter. Worse yet, there's speculation of what kind of havoc a trojan horse jumping on ICQ could cause. I don't know if ICQ is scriptable, but what if someone implemented a program that contacts the ICQ network (possibly by borrowing code from one of the open-source Linux ICQ clones), then sends itself to all of your ICQ contacts? A lot of ICQ users indiscriminately accept and run any file sent to them. Just another conduit. Hopefully it's beyond most virus writers. (Most virus writers are on my programming level. If I download a real program, you know, like an open-source Linux utility, I'm pretty clueless about four lines in. I can follow virus code, because it's simple.)

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