The next step in the process was the lunch
of mark Ludwig’s magazine Computer Virus Developments Quarterly. Claiming
to a publication aimed at virus-aware MIS manager, the magazine included
material which would help a reasonably inexperienced programmer develop his own
virus code.
The most recent step in
this chain of events is the publication of Ludwig’s $100 (RS 3200) CD-ROM,
blandly titled The Collection, Outlaws from America’s Wild West. This disc represents
the largest collection of virus information ever made available to a wide
audience.
The Ludwig collection
poses many problems for the industry; the greatest of these is that, with large
amounts of virus code available, it is likely that an upturn in the number of
variants of particular viruses may occur. How the industry and the computing
community chooses to deal with this CD-ROM is a subject open to discussion, but
if action needs to be taken, it needs to be taken soon.
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