They're going to want to read Fred Cohen's "Computer Viruses - Theory and Experiments" (http://all.net/books/virus/index.html http://all.net/books/virus/index.h

They're going to want to read Fred Cohen's "Computer Viruses - Theory and Experiments" (http://all.net/books/virus/index.html http://all.net/books/virus/index.html) and maybe some of his other papers, first. After understanding that paper, they might want to lower the bar a bit.