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- The Press!
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- This crap article was found on page 60 of the October edition of
- Australian PC User.
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- All comments enclosed in [square brackets] are by me! (qark)
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- Made in Australia...
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- Australia's contribution to the pantheon of computer viruses has been
- relatively modest, according to local developers of anti-virus products.
- [They musn't know their shit. Daemon, lemmings and 1984 are superb
- viruses!] There have been a couple of well-publicised viruses that
- were locally produced but their fame has been short lived. [He means
- when X-Fungus got SunCorp and when Dudley infected OTC (Australia's
- telephone link to the world :)]
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- Dudley, Gingerbread Man, No Frills and Nuke [1984 they mean] are some
- of the names that have come and gone. All were fairly ordinary in terms
- of the way they went about their malicious work. [Bullshit! I bet these
- fuckers they consulted don't even have a clue how 1984 works! It's
- fucking tricky!] Aryeh Goretsky, technical manager of McAfee Associates
- in the US, said that he had not heard much in the way of viruses from
- Australia recently. "I had one report of the Junkie virus from
- Australia, which was more memorable for being hyped in the US press
- than anything else," he told PC User. [Junkie was *everywhere*. It
- was like the plague round here. Shows you how crappy Scan has really
- become]
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- The most prolific writer in Australia was a young Brisbane student
- who boasted broadly about his success until the Federal Police visited
- him with a warning over a year ago. [We all know who this dude is :) ]
- According to Australian anti-virus workers, his approach consisted
- primarily of piecing together chunks of code from already extant viruses
- and making new ones without even studying the underlying techniques.
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- The activity of the federal police and the anti-virus community in
- silencing Australia's most public virus writer has not meant an end to
- this particular form of anti-social behaviour, however. In August this
- year, a number of new viruses were discovered which appear to have been
- written here.
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- [hehe... not us! ]
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- One appeared on a bulletin board with the filename skid.exe apparently
- designed as a tool for other virus writers to use. ['Skid Row' was
- written in Taiwan by Dark Slayer. Awesome virus, but not Australian]
- This has no 'warhead' [They mean - destructive payload], it can only
- make copies of itself and hide. Another one, a variation on the Lemmings
- virus, appears designed to attack users of the Thunderbyte anti-virus
- software. [Variation ? The original did as well! And it was written
- in Australia originally]
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- Virus writers in Australia stay in contact with each other through
- bulletin boards and informal groups at schools. [Nope, doesn't happen
- that much. There aren't many coders around and you have to stay
- undercover with your activities and you don't advertise it.] While
- bulletin boards are an effective way to swap code and ideas, virus
- writers are not welcome in many places and the Federal Police and
- researchers keep an eye on those boards which appear to encourage such
- activity. [Why ? They can't do shit because virus writing is legal!]
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- These boards typically contain tracts [tracts=a writing of some sort.
- They are getting stuck into obscure words] from groups such as the
- Australian Institute of Hackers (AIH). [Never heard of them] The AIH
- supplies virus tutorials aimed at "wimps, faggots and lamers" who do not
- know how to write a 'real' virus. [I don't think the AIH do either
- because I've never seen anything by them... perhaps lemmings ?]
- Fortunately for the rest of us, most of this is simply peer group
- grandstanding with the aim to prove one's cleverness rather than cause
- any real damage.
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- The appearance of viruses targetted at particular anti-viral products
- is of some concern, and for that reason I have not quoted the anti-virus
- workers who helped me research this article by name. [Lucky for them!
- The information is so poor they'd just look like fools. Besides, I can
- tell by the huge ad for 'Virus Buster by Leprechaun' just below the
- article who one of them is! I think I'll log onto their bbs and hang up
- inside a door again to piss them off ha ha ha]
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- So far Australia has not spawned any particularly evil geniuses, but
- caution is prudent. [BwAhahAHahAhA! VLAD is here! :) ]
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- By Geoff Ebbs
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- Would the AIH please try and get in touch with us if they truly
- exist ?! On IRC (Internet) in #virus is one place.
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- Must be in some viral backwater like Sydney or Adelaide to
- avoid detection by VXers up until this point. Probably just made up
- bullshit anyway.
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- This whole article is crap. Every second BBS has an infected copy of
- Scan (the old infection favourite :) online. They looked at isolated
- infections. Not only that, but got their information completely wrong!
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- Qark/VLAD
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