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Originally Posted by wenwilder
What if you could go to college to learn how to write virus'? And if you could, would you? If you attend the University of Calgary you can. University of Calgary Professor John Aycock has been including a bit of virus writing in his course, "Computer Viruses and Malware."
Should it be something that is taught?
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Yeah, absolutely this should be taught. There's no way to train people in security without them knowing how to write viruses, which for a 3rd year comp sci major, would take about 1 hour to learn. It's a program that uses the Windows API, that's about it. It's not like a bunch of web designers are going to write one with their Dreamweaver...haha. Anyway, People who don't know C++ and the Windows API inside and out are wasting their time trying to learn this stuff.