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- Aims and Policies
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- I guess it's not our aim, but one of our main policies is that we
- don't release any destructive code. Some people out there will
- argue that a virus in any shape or form is destructive.. what I'm
- talking about is purposeful destruction such as formatting people's
- hard drives, writing random sectors etc. The reason for this is
- that it makes things bad for everyone. It helps further the theory
- that all virus authors are nerdy assholes who have nothing better
- to do, and kinda destroys a computer from which the virus could've
- spread to many other machines.
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- The reason we publish this magazine, is because we have something
- to offer that could be of use to others. We hope to educate people
- on how viruses work, and do this by giving examples. There are
- people out there that might have fun inserting their own nick in
- the virus and spreading it to try and be eleet, but I'd say a
- majority of people actually get something useful out of our mag.
- Anti Virus research is totally legal as far as I know, and our
- magazine would certainly help someone who's in this field. Or
- on the other hand it could be used by a beginning virus author
- who needs help to get their virus off the ground. Information is
- a free commodity, we're just passing it along.
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- As to the regularity of release, well basically when we have enough
- articles/viruses for an issue, it will be released. There is no
- set time period between each release.
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- Of course we as VLAD are after recognition, not so much so that
- we'll send our code to VSUM but the spread of our magazine should
- raise the reputation. What I hoped from the start has kinda come
- true, I've had many people asking me when the next issue is out,
- and people making conversation about our releases. Things are
- definately getting better each release, and hopefully I can keep
- them that way ;).
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- Metabolis/VLAD
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