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- Introduction
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- Well I don't think the release date has been held back this time,
- mostly because I didn't really give any definite release time,
- this was a good decision I think. This is issue is as usual pretty
- much packed full with viruses and related information.
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- Hopefully the code contained in this issue is definitely bug free,
- we haven't had the best past for this but we're checking things out
- a little better now. If you find one, email me and I'll kill
- whoever did it :).
-
- The group has expanded once more, there are now seven of us, and
- it's definitely the last addition to the group. Although I said
- the same thing last issue, I think it's definite this time. Now
- we have a decent amount of members it means I can take a rest
- (shya!).
-
- Quantum makes his appearance with his two viruses, Bane and
- Tasha Yar Mark II. It's Mark II because he originally wrote
- Tasha Yar as his "application" virus and when it actually came
- to testing the virus, it didn't work! hehe so it's a rewrite of
- the original. He also wrote half of the windows virus, which
- is something I have no clues about :).
-
- Much like last issue there's a contribution (or two) from
- everyone in this issue. Not as many as some people would have
- liked but there aren't any more spaces anyway :). We've pretty
- much fulfilled our goals in virus authoring so now we have to
- think up some new ideas for us to do. We may write a
- com/exe/newEXE infector just to expand the technology but who knows.
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- The work up to this issue was a little slow to begin with since
- people's commitments at university/college kinda cut down on
- productivity. At last though, it's here and it's an impressive
- assortment of code. There are plenty of independant submissions
- which makes the magazine more interesting.
-
- VLAD now has a world wide web page, at the moment it's at
- 'http://nether.net/~halflife' but it will eventually be moved
- to 'http://tmok2.tmok.com/~meta'. So when you can no longer
- reach the page at nether.net you know it has moved :). On the
- page you can read about our progress towards the next issue and
- there are hypertext copies of vlad#2-4. There are also links to
- other virus pages around the place, so check them out also..
-
- Well that's just about all I have to say with relevance to us,
- now I'll pass along a little news of what has been happening in
- the virus scene.
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- The group mentioned in vlad#2 & 3 AIH has now officially split
- up. They were responsible for the Aussie Parasite family and
- the Aussie Tiny viruses. A couple of the members have gone onto
- cracking games whilst Dark Fiber has joined NuKE.
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- He's not the only person to join NuKE recently. There are three
- other additions to the group. Virogen and Diddler from USA, and
- Stalker X from South Africa. On the other hand, Mr.Twister has
- quit the group and is off to do bigger and better things :).
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- Red_a and Blonde have joined Immortal Riot so there's another
- couple of helping hands to get their Insane Reality magazine
- out. The Unforgiven tells me he has some full stealth viruses
- ready to put out so issue 7 of insane reality should be
- something to check out.
-
- The scene with Aristotle seems to have quietened down, I've
- given up reading echomail so I wouldn't have a clue what's
- going on there. Although if you get yourself a copy of the
- Chiba City times #3 check out his MBC v2.0 for a little message
- about us on exit.
-
- 40hex issue 14 has finally been released, after a while of
- saying it'll be out next week (every week ;) garbage heap
- finally got it done. It's definitely worth checking out.
-
- It seems Urnst Kouch just can't keep things to himself, in
- his latest issue of the crypt newsletter he managed let slip
- more private info about another virus author. Although he
- emailed me after vlad#3 and told me that the mentioned person
- knew all about it (re crypt #29) the same cannot be said for
- this case. Here's a little hint for everyone, if Urnst wants
- to speak to you, you keep your mouth shut :).
-
- Our friend Zvi Netiv the author of Invircible that lovely
- AV package has finally done himself in. He has been banned
- from Fido's virus and virus_info echos. Before he got himself
- kicked out, he implied Vesselin Bontchev was the Dark Avenger,
- and he said that Vesselin's phd was taking him so long because
- he's slack. Vesselin hit back by posting a message claiming
- that IV is a trojan because it will overwrite a file called
- 'sofia' in the root directory. Actually, Zvi isn't too popular
- with a lot of people at the moment, due to his criticism of
- opposition anti-virus software, with Frans Veldman (TBAV) and
- Wolfgang Stiller (Integrity Master) both taking offence at
- some of his comments.
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- Quite a few of our viruses from vlad#3 have now been added
- to the growing list of scanned viruses by TBAV and F-Prot.
- Although not all, I'd say they picked the wrong ones to scan.
- Since hemlock still isn't detected when it's TSR due to the
- various stealths.
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- I haven't seen too much happen around me lately so I don't
- have that much info for this issue, but I hope you got something
- out of the little I did have to say.
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- Metabolis/VLAD
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