Malware Museum Lets You Run Old MS-DOS Viruses

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The Internet Archive has published a collection of old viruses that you can run under emulation to see their effects.

The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes show animation or messages that you had been infected. Through the use of emulations, and additionally removing any destructive routines within the viruses, this collection allows you to experience virus infection of decades ago with safety.
 
Interesting. How were such things commonly distributed in the 80s? Computer clubs and bulletin board systems?
 
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