home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- Taiwan Interviews
- +---------------+
-
- Just after vlad#3 was released I interviewed the two Taiwanese virus
- authors I know, Dark Slayer and Slash Wu. I thought it would be
- interesting to hear what it was like from each of them and compare
- the results. It certainly is interesting to read them. There are a
- few discrepencies between the two but in general I'd say they don't
- hate each other too much :). Anyway, without further ado.. here's
- the interviews.
-
- Dark Slayer Interview
- +-------------------+
-
- Meta: What made you choose the name Dark Slayer?
- Dark: After reading an article called 'Introducing Dark Avanger
- and Dark Angel' on magazine, I realize that I need a cool
- name like theirs. When I was thinking and listening the
- Slayer's CD ( a Metal Band ), suddently I found 'Slayer '
- cool enough. That's why I called ' Dark Slayer '.
-
- Meta: Could you give us a short description of yourself?
- (age, hobbies, study/work etc)
- Dark: I am a 19 years old boy. I like swimming, playing basketball,
- listening Heavy Metal, playing Computer, reading novel and so
- on. I am a college student and my major course is electrical
- engineer. I live in dorm. Although I called 'Dark Slayer' but
- I never write any destructive virus. To me, writing virus is
- just for research and fun.
-
- Meta: How many years have you been coding ASM?
- Dark: About 3 years.
-
- Meta: Do you know any other languages?
- Dark: Yes! I can write C, Basic and 8048 micro-assembly.
-
-
- Meta: What have you written so far?
- Dark: I only wrote about 10-15 viruses so for. They are MacGyver
- ( 1.0a, 1.0b, 2.0, 2.2, 3.0, 4.0 ), Connie I/II, Ray Gong
- ( This is the only boot virus I wrote), New 512 ( or DS-512 ),
- Skid-Row ( version A, B, C; C version can infect files via
- directly HD I/O ), Assassin ( first version and BugFixed
- version) and two engine ( DSME v1.0, DSCE v1.0 ). The other
- virii for testing purpose are unnamed.
-
- Meta: What made you write these programs? (also what made you learn
- assembly?)
- Dark: The reason made me to write virus is: I love to fool others.
- I bought a book called 'Introduce to Assembly' and started
- to study it.
- Finally I wrote my first virus, an over-written virus. When
- I studied more and more technique, I was attracted in writing
- virus. Writing virus has so many tricks like polymorphic,
- hidden, compress/decompress and so on ( ex: DIR-2, 512,
- Phoenix... ) that I can't ask myself stop writing.
-
- Meta: How is the virus scene in Taiwan?
- Dark: In fact, virus writers in Taiwan are not so many than you
- though. We don't like you guys (espically guys in U.S.)
- have many free time for writing virus. We have thousands of
- homework to study. :(
- In Taiwan, AV writers are as many as virii writers, but most
- of their products like shit.
-
- Meta: Have you ever been involved in any groups?
- Dark: I had organized a group once. My group didn't have so many
- virus writer. This caused my group smaller and smaller. :(
- I am the only one in this group.
-
- Meta: Are there any virus laws in Taiwan?
- Dark: I'm not familier with law, but I heard there are some law
- about virus writing. By now, I haven't heard any one busted.
-
- Meta: Do you spread your own programs?
- Dark: I put my virus into some shareware/pd espically anti-virus
- program and then I upload the file to BBS. This will cause
- my virii spread soon. Most of my virii will infect one executable
- file when you are using it.
-
- Meta: Who is your favourite virus coder?
- Dark: I like Dark Avenger. When I began to study virus , he is my aim.
- Espically his Mutation Engine, it really cool.
-
- Meta: Do viruses travel fast in Taiwan?
- Dark: Viruses spread so soon 'cause Taiwan is a small island. :)
-
- Meta: Which anti-virus product do you think is the best?
- Dark: I think TBAV is so not bad although its holes are so many.
- Many people don't like it, but I think it really good.
-
- Meta: Are there any greets you want to give, or anything else
- you want to say?
- Dark: I don't like Slash Wu. ( He is a virus writer in Taiwan. )
- This guy In fact, his stuff are not technique enough. You
- can say that GPE 1.0 is copied from DSME 1.0 . He always
- said how good his virii is and how suck my stuff is. Sometimes
- he act just like a AV writet and let you though he is a good guy.
-
- Greets to:
- Metabolis: Your VLAD is really cool. I like it and I'm looking
- forward to your windows virus!!!
- Priest: You always have so many cool idea, and I'll make DSCE better.
- Qark: I like your virii and I hope your virii will be better.
- Dark Angel: It's my pleasure to see you on irc. I like your DAME.
- Garbage Heap: It's so nice to chat with you on irc. 40hex is good
- sutff.
- King Dan: Thanks for your help on IRC.
- Lookout: Hi, camry wanted me to say hello to you. Right now he
- is busy on his master's exam.
- Dark Avenger: I would like to thank you for your cool idea -
- Mutation Engine.
- Nowhere Man: Although I haven't seen you, but I knew you for
- a long time.
- P/S group: I wish I could organize a group like yours. Your viruses
- are all cool.
- NuKe group: When the NuKe infoJournal 9 will be released?
- TPE group: I love your TPE :)
- and greets to all virus writer, Good Luck!!!
-
- Slash Wu Interview
- +----------------+
-
- Meta: What made you choose the name Slash Wu?
- Slash: I love Heavy Metal, especially Guns N' Roses, and the guitarist
- Slash is my idol, so I choose "Slash" as my name, and "Wu" is my
- last name, I like it, that's all!
-
- Meta: Could you give us a short description of yourself?
- (age, hobbies, study/work etc)
- Slash: I was born on XX/XX/74 (a 20 year-old boy, single). I live in
- Taipei Taiwan. I love music, playing E-guitar, Asm, and pingpong,
- etc... I'm a 5-year junior college student (I think I'll attend
- the university, Bless Me!).
-
- Meta: How many years have you been coding ASM?
- Slash: I've been coding ASM since I was a 17 year-old boy. It's been
- about three years...
-
- Meta: Do you know any other languages?
- Slash: Yeah, I can also use C, C++, V-Basic, & so on...
- But ASSEMBLY is still my favorite.
-
- Meta: What have you written so far?
- Slash: 1. Computer Rubber v1.00, v1.01 ['92/9]
- 2. Super Virus - I (for research) ['93/x]
- 3. Guns N' Roses Polymorphic Engine v1.00 ['94/2], v2.00 ['94/5]
- 4. Phantasie Mutation Engine v1.00 (the latest product) ['95/1]
-
- Meta: What made you write these programs? (also what made you learn
- assembly?)
- Slash: I was attracted to virus since 1992. At that time, I realized
- that I must learn ASM first before I could understand virus.
- And so, I started to learn ASM. Later, I traced the first
- --- Black Friday. Then I took interest in MtE, and wrote GPE
- and the following PME...
-
- Meta: How is the virus scene in Taiwan?
- Slash: There are many new groups came out, but their experience is
- not enough... so their product is ...!@#$%... Yet, Dark Slayer
- is good.
-
- Meta: Have you ever been involved in any groups?
- Slash: Nope, I have never been involved in any groups, only myself.
-
- Meta: Are there any virus laws in Taiwan?
- Slash: Nope, I have never heard of such a specific legislation in Taiwan.
-
- Meta: Do you spread your own programs?
- Slash: Nope, I only do some research.
-
- Meta: Who is your favorite virus coder?
- Slash: If I have to name one, perhaps Dark Avenger is my favorite coder
- for he introduced the MtE theory.
-
- Meta: Do viruses travel fast in Taiwan?
- Slash: Not quite so, because once there emerges a virus, it would soon
- be sent to AVers for a resolution.
-
- Meta: Which anti-virus product do you think is the best?
- Slash: If I have to name one, perhaps ThunderByte B.V. Anti-Virus could
- be the best.
-
- Meta: Are there any greets you want to give, or anything else
- you want to say?
- Slash: First, I want to extend thanks to Metabolis for giving me the
- chance to introduce myself, I am glad to know him. further, I
- wish that the virus authors would not create any destructive
- virus. It's okay to do some research or experiment, but not
- to cause any damages... That's all!
- At last, Greetings to all virus programmers.
-
- Metabolis/VLAD
-
-