Take a trip down memory lane at The Malware Museum

The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s

By: HT CORRESPONDENT
| Updated on: Feb 09 2016, 11:39 IST
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The site runs a Dos emulator (Dosbox) that runs the malicious code as it would have run on a computer in its day (Archive.org)

The Archiving website has managed to build a museum out of something you'd rather forget -- Malware. The Malware Museum website lists some of the most iconic malware since the dawn of computers.

The site runs a Dos emulator (Dosbox) that runs the malicious code as it would have run on a computer. The Coffshop, Skynet and Shifter are some of the malware on offer.

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What you get however, is the display of the article and not the harm. Everything happends in one windows of the browser, keeping your computer out of harm's way.

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Even though the digital museum is a collection of malware distributed in the 80's and 90's. These are particularly special because they're not as harmful has the present-day trojan or spyware distributed over the internet. These malware had humour and sometimes a deeper purpose. They'd troll or propaganda through messages or animations displayed after a computer was infected.

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First Published Date: 09 Feb, 11:39 IST
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