Unfortunately there were also badly written, overwriting viruses that destroyed the host.
I made a COM-to-EXE convertor back in time so that I can compress them with LZEXE (I don't remember anything about it, but I guess I just prepended an empty relocation table). It would have been interesting to incorporate that functionality in a virus.
Volkov Commander anyone?
If we're going to individually name every Orthodox File Manager, we are going to take some while. (-:
You mean like FAR commander? ;)
FAR Manager. They went civilian :)
Dos Navigator.
m602
volkov was a great virus detector
its size was right at the edge of segment (64k) so when a virus appended to the .com binary, volkov stopped working
Unfortunately there were also badly written, overwriting viruses that destroyed the host.
I made a COM-to-EXE convertor back in time so that I can compress them with LZEXE (I don't remember anything about it, but I guess I just prepended an empty relocation table). It would have been interesting to incorporate that functionality in a virus.
I still use volcov commander on my dos machines :)
And MC on the *nixes of course.
I remember asking to my friend how do you use ‘nc’ in Linux and he answering “type ‘mc’”.