Virus Writers Handbook

Hello there, great to have you here.

Form the college days, which we used to write tiny virus with Turbo Pascal (don’t laugh) in 2002, and up to now I have almost around 7 years of relationship with the virus programming. If you are new to this field you will get to know that there is very much lack resources are available for the subject even in the WWW. The main reason for this is the way people think about the virus, most think them as evil and must be avoided as possible, but is it? If you get to know viruses you will understand, It’s not about destruction (as most would say) its all about exploration and challenges, and virus programmers are some kind of hackers who thinking out of the box for alternative solutions for regular problems.
Then, in the following chapters I will guide you from the very basics to advance topics about the viruses.
So without any more talking lets step in to the world of computer viruses.
What you need to start
Virtually Nothing (no kidding), you will only need an simple text editor (most of you already have one) to complete most the tutorial and I have made no assumptions about your knowledge on the programming, I have tried my best to keep things simple as possible and you will require no previous knowledge about any programming language ether.
You can use any kind of text editor for this as long as it produced plain text, for example Notepad in windows. (if you are using Win word be sure to save the files as *.txt format)
Downloads
With the tutorial I have provide you a bunch of executable programs which you can downloaded and test in your local environment, all those files are simulation programs and not real virus at all (don’t fear to check them out!)
What you find in the tutorial
In the tutorial I have combined many of useful topics of the subject, if you are newbie or pro, you will find things useful to you here. There is no defined structure through out the tutorial so you are free to skip any section as you wish (it’s up to you).
So get ready to jump in to the world of gladiators …