The dying art of computer viruses

History

• Timeline of Viruses and Worms (wikipedia)

Working of a Virus

• Description of Virus types on virus.wikidot.com
• media:The_Technology_and_Evolution_of_an_Artificial_Life_Form.pdf

Collections

• VXHeaven
• youtube user danooctl shows many viruses in action

Setting up the lab environment

• Download virtualbox
• Create a freedos environment following: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox
• As virtual disk choose the supplied VDOS.vdi (or new if you want to set it up yourself)