Anybody here ever done malware analysis?

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I've taken apart viruses for the following computers:
- 5 (Atari ST)
- 2 (MS-DOS)
- 3 (Windows)

The Atari ST was especially interesting. It felt like an archaeological dig into forgotten history. It was interesting to see how different virus programmers made their creations work.

I figured out how XP AntiVirus 2009 worked, and also discovered that it was able to do a stealth install via Firefox on a Windows Box due to the fact XP's SP3 essentially replaced Firefox's depandancy on Sun's Java VM and replaced it with dependacies of .Net Framework.

I also traced the domain for XP AntiVirus down to an address on Queens Road, Belize City, Belize.