Math baloney: yet another first

2006-06-01

Dr Vesselin Bontchev

FRISK Software International, Iceland

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

In April 2006 a virus appeared for a new virusable platform - the general-purpose, mathematics-oriented MatLab. Vesselin Bontchev provides us with the full details of the unremarkable and slightly buggy proof-of-concept virus MLab/Balogy.A.

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