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- AIMS and POLICIES!
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- You may notice something in all of the VLAD source code, this is
- the lack of destructive code. Why? Destructive code makes the scene
- bad for everyone. When there's a major trashing by a new virus it
- gives virus authors a shit name, and people generally believe that
- we're computer vandals. If you have a virus killing hard drives
- everywhere, isn't it slightly obvious that your machine is infected?
- Hmm.. gee, I wonder! Without the extra code those few crucial extra
- bytes can be saved to make the overall virus more compact and much
- more likely to spread.
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- The whole point of releasing the magazine is to educate people out
- there about how virii work and give examples. The magazine isn't a
- release for lamers to merely change the text in the virus and brag
- to their fellow lamers that they're a big time virus author.
- Anti-Virus research is legal, and this could be a good learning tool
- for someone who is deciding to pursue a career in this field. Or on
- the other hand, this could be used by a budding virus author needing
- help to get their virus off the ground. Information is a free
- commodity, we're just passing it along.
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- The magazine won't be a regular release, as programming virii
- and coming up with new ideas for them can take some time.
- So when the next magazine is ready, it will be released!
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- Has someone ever started talking to you about virii and all of
- a sudden either one of you flicks through the names of all the well
- known virus groups? It happens to me once in a while. We'd like
- VLAD to be added to this ever growing hall of fame. We won't stoop
- low enough to send shit into VSUM for recognition we hope to get
- it by pure distribution of this mag and the spread of the virii that
- we turn out. To help this along, we're gonna release as much as we
- can, as fast as we can!
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- I guess the last aim would be to stay out of trouble! We don't
- damage any computers with nasty sector trashers or format the boot
- sector on wednesdays at 3pm so there's not too much that can be laid
- on us :). Since when can writing computer programs be illegal. Some
- people really have a twisted image of the virus scene in general,
- this doesn't really help much at all. So, we'll keep trucking till
- we can't no more and there you go. You want virus? You got virus!
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- Metabolis/VLAD
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