Viruses wanted for masters project
profquail: You could also send some emails out to the makers of some anti-virus and malware software (McAfee, Kapersky, LavaSoft, etc.); I'm sure they have plenty of samples they could offer you.Also, check out this list of big computer worms on Wikipedia, perhaps you could search around and find copies of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_notable_computer_vi...