Virii Group aims at challenging people to think in new ways about viruses, and break down false concepts and wrong ways of thinking, and go on from there to discuss the relevance of computer viruses in today's world. This Group is not a call to a witch hunt, or manuals for protecting ourselves from viruses. On the contrary, we  try and learn how to design viruses, deploy them, and make
them better.

Computer Viruses technically known as Self-Reproducing Automaton are not evil. A plethora of negative magazine articles and books have catalyzed a new kind of hypochondria among computer users: an unreasonable fear of computer viruses. This hypochondria is possible because a) computers are very complex machines which will often behave in ways which are not obvious to the average user, and b) computer viruses are still extremely rare. Thus, most computer users have never experienced a computer virus attack. Their only experience has been what they've read about or heard about (and only the worst problems make it into print). This combination of ignorance, inexperience and fear-provoking reports of danger is the perfect formula for mass hysteria.

Through this group of NSF we aim to gain a better understanding of the different kinds of viruses and other destructive programs.
 

AGENDA 1. Understanding the fundamentals of virii, worms, logic bombs and Trojan horses.
2. Working on assemblers and learning how to use them
3. Decipher the code of a few existing virii and understand how they come to
life and work.
4. We don't promise this, but we will try and work on writing our own small destructive computer program.