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This article is from the Computer viruses FAQ, by David Harley D.Harley@icrf.icnet.uk, George Wenzel gwenzel@telusplanet.net and Bruce Burrell bpb@umich.edu with numerous contributions by others.

14) What language should I write a virus in? (Computer virus)

Choose your own squelch:

* ANSI COBOL
* LOGO
* Karel the Robot
* PL/I
* dBase II
* Get a life
* Or my personal favourite (thanks, Bruce!)
"Hey, man; where can I get a copy of
Visual English to write some hot new virii?!?"

If you need to ask this question, you'd be better off collecting
tazos than trying to write viruses.

No, seriously, what language are they written in?
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The simple answer is "Assembler, mostly (on the PC)". High-level
languages such as C and Pascal are sometimes used, as are various
flavours of command shells on various systems (Unix shell scripts,
DCL scripts etc.). Macro viruses are written in macro languages,
surprisingly....... B-)

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