How to write a virus for MSX - Tutorial

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 13:14
Submitted by: mars2000you
Topic: Development

The MSX platform has never been suffered a lot from viruses. As far as we know, there's only one MSX virus out in the open: the ZAPP virus, for which a nice antivirus utility exists as well.

This Spanish article describes the basic principles of developing a virus for MSX, whilst giving general information on how such a virus works. MSX developers: please use this knowledge wisely. One MSX virus out in the open is more than enough

Relevant link: How to write a virus for MSX - Tutorial

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By SeD_NcL on April 19 2005, 13:24

There are 2 MSX virus available. oCe (Jeffrey Schaaf) made one years ago.

By snout on April 19 2005, 14:17

ok, that makes it a bit more difficult to double the amount of viruses available for MSX

By Vincent van Dam on April 19 2005, 14:23

Several viruses are discussed in this forum topic.

By BiFi on April 19 2005, 19:09

A smiley on the front page?!

By snout on April 19 2005, 19:11

it happened before, it'll happen again... scary huh?

By d-fader on April 19 2005, 19:40

pity i don't speak fluently spanish

By NYYRIKKI on April 19 2005, 23:40

Hey, maybe we can create our own CIH type of virus epidemia! I've found even a way to break for good some Phillips MSX2 computers with pure software!!!

I think, that most people do not have antivirus TSR in their autoexec.bat so future epidemia is even easy to create!

People, don't be stupid! Don't write viruses and don't encourage people to write virus programs, there are plenty of other ways to use your creativity!

By BiFi on April 20 2005, 10:59

NYYRIKKI is of course referring to this forum topic again.

By NYYRIKKI on April 20 2005, 12:02

It depends...

Yes, that is a good example of focusing your MSX creativity.

... and ...

No, those programs do not harm your computer, dvik just really should not eat on top of his computer.

Just to make things clear, I would not ever give away code that could harm MSX hardware, software or users on purpose.