Back in the day when we were still on 486′s and we were just getting our first VGA or if we were lucky SVGA monitor and we were waiting for Windows 95 to come out I made my first and only virus program with a mate.

What it would do – FORMAT YOUR ENTIRE PC!

How we did it – we took format.com and renamed it after some new game like ‘bomberman’ or something, so it became ‘bomberman.com’

The Problem – when you ran format.com it needed a drive to format like ‘format c:’ and also when it was running it would say ‘formatting c: 1% complete’ and show the progress.

The solution – we edited the format.com file and found the wording for ‘formatting’ and changed it to ‘installing’

And bingo we had a nice little program that would wipe your computer clean, we then gave it to a ‘friend’ of ours and said it was this awesome new game.

Lets just say it the virus worked!

Haven’t tried to make another once since but maybe one day…