There are a lot of weird ones museums around the world. Another one was added on Friday. Archive.org opened an online Museum malware.
The malware museum is a collection of 78 malware (mostly viruses) from the 80s and 90s, when malware infections were often accompanied by 8-bit animations.
The exhibits are curated by Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen, the chief officer at Finnish security company F-Secure. The online museum allows visitors to run virus simulations in the by clicking here them or download a modified version of the maIware to their computer.
Of course, the virus you download from the museum does not contain the destructive commands that the real virus did. That is, you will download the real virus without however the part of the code that will ruin your day (not to say anything about your computer).
Although you only get a simulation of the virus, for those of you who remember it MS-DOS operating system Microsoft, perhaps watching the animations of malicious software can cause you some painful memories. (And those of you who want to watch them then did the actual versions of the viruses you can watch the videos here).
Archive.org's collection represents only a small fraction of the total DOS maIware wreaking havoc on computers at the time. The first virus computers which targeted pc ( known as Brain ) 1986 was recognized.
The collection may be modest in size, but it still provides a fun ride at a time when computers were starting to make their way into every home.
