Reverse engineering the kuku virus in Python and how I did it.

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The original KUKU virus was written in TURBO-BASIC, which is even more painful to read than regular assembly. Kuku means in multiple Slav languages something like "I gotch you" The source code can be found in the VX Underground malware collection.