Virtual Floppy Infection
Move one fictional floppy between disconnected computers and observe a harmless conceptual state transfer.
ENTER INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE →Educational context & safety boundary
This historical archive uses original browser-only presentation, conceptual simulations, and harmless visual demonstrations. All eight interactive labs are available.
It will not distribute or execute real malware samples, executable viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, exploit payloads, or destructive code. Historical names may appear for context, never with operational code or reproduction instructions.
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Exhibit briefing
Computer security history includes both curiosity-driven experiments and deliberately harmful activity. The lab will distinguish early self-replicating software, such as Creeper and the defensive Reaper, from later malware created to infect, disrupt, extort, or control systems.
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HISTORICAL ARCHIVE: OPEN · INTERACTIVE LABS: 8 AVAILABLE
History, organized by era
- 01OPEN
Early Experiments
Early self-replicating programs and the origins of the computer-virus concept.
Context: Creeper / Reaper - 02OPEN
Floppy Era
Boot-sector and early personal-computer malware spreading through removable media.
Context: Elk Cloner · Brain - 03OPEN
DOS Virus Era
File infection, memory-resident malware, stealth concepts, and polymorphism.
Context: Michelangelo - 04OPEN
Macro Viruses
How documents and office automation became a new infection vector.
Context: Melissa - 05OPEN
Internet Worms
The transition from physical-media spread to automated network propagation.
Context: Morris Worm · Code Red · SQL Slammer · Sasser - 06OPEN
Email & Social Engineering
Mass-mailing malware and the increasing role of human trust and deception.
Context: ILOVEYOU · Mydoom - 07OPEN
Trojans & Botnets
Remote-control malware, compromised machines, command-and-control concepts, and botnets.
Context: Zeus - 08OPEN
Modern Malware
Ransomware, supply-chain compromise, IoT malware, and modern criminal ecosystems.
Context: WannaCry - 09OPEN
Defense Lab
How signatures, heuristics, behavioral analysis, sandboxing, patching, backups, and endpoint protection evolved.
Defensive computing in focus
BROWSER-ONLY · HARMLESS · FICTIONAL
Interactive Lab Experiences
Boot Sector Viewer
Compare clean and simulated modified fictional boot-sector structures in a safe disk forensics workstation.
ENTER INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE →File Infection Visualizer
See conceptually how the same fictional program can retain its name while its internal structure and execution route change.
ENTER INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE →Worm Propagation Map
Trace a harmless simulated worm between fictional computers in a closed browser-only network model.
ENTER INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE →Virus Scanner Lab
Compare signatures, heuristics, and behavioral detection using completely synthetic samples.
ENTER INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE →Ransomware Concept Demo
Use fictional files and reversible visual states only; no real encryption, filesystem access, or user files.
ENTER INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE →Defense Lab
Command a fictional blue-team response across prevention, detection, containment, recovery, and hardening layers.
ENTER INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE →Love Letter Incident Lab
Examine a safe reconstruction of how one deceptive attachment, scripting automation, and human trust contributed to a global malware outbreak.
ENTER INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE →LOG
Curatorial record
Exhibit state: historical archive open. All 9 historical chapter pages and all 8 interactive lab experiences are available. The Malware History Lab is fully open.