There are a lot of weird museums around the world. Another was added on Friday. The Archive.org άνοιξε ένα on-line μουσείο 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 the 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 will download from the museum does not contain the destructive commands that the real virus did. That is, you will download the real virus but without its part code that will ruin your day (to say nothing of 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).
The Archive.org collection represents only a small fraction of the total DOS software that hacked the computers at that time. The first computer virus targeting pc ( known as Brain ) 1986 was recognized.
The collection can be of medium size, but still offers a fun route at a time when computers started to enter each home.
