Where do I get VCL and an assembler, & what's the password?

Wrong FAQ. You don't learn anything about viruses, programming or anything else from virus toolkits. You want rec.knitting. B-) I can't believe there's anyone left on the Internet who doesn't know the VCL password, but I'm not going to tell you anyway. OK, maybe you want an assembler to learn assembly-language, not just to rehash prefabricated code. Where do you get TASM? You buy it from Borland or one of their agents, either stand-alone or with one of their high-level languages. If you want freeware or shareware, I guess you can still get the likes of CHASM and A86 (SimTel mirror sites in SimTel/asm).