Crash Pentium Trojan - (only 4 bytes long), worlds smallest virus

Discussion in 'other security issues & news' started by the mul, Jun 11, 2004.

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  1. the mul

    the mul Registered Member

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    This may be the world's smallest virus. It only impacts the oldest PCs and shouldn't be a threat. Writing a something like this in just 4 characters of compiled code is indeed interesting. If only other developers were that efficient ;)

    Crash Pentium Trojan - (only 4 bytes long)
    http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_126240.htm

    This is a four byte application which exploits a defect in older Pentium chips. This causes the system to reboot.

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  2. nadirah

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    Wow, that's the world's smallest computer virus.
     
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