The dying art of computer viruses

[Terrence Dorsey]

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Even though I knew malware was wrong, and not to be encouraged, I had a sneaking regard for the graphical payloads some of the virus writers were building into their creations. I recognised that this *was* a form of art. And there was art in the malware’s code as well. Virus writers would often spend months, tweaking their code, using innovative new techniques in an attempt to make it undetectable by anti-virus products. I didn’t agree with what they were doing, but had to admire the coding skill deployed by some of them. Like much modern art, you didn’t necessarily have to like it to acknowledge the skills used to produce it.

But then things started to change. Malware got commercial.