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Interactive interview with Rajaat
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I found Rajaat at some .uk address while chatting on IRC. Since I at that
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time had plans for releasing issue #7 and needed to fatten up it a bit, so
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I asked for an interview and he agreed on doing one. While talking, it turned
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out to be a very large interview, and I think it became more of a
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conversation.
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Since this interview was done, several interesting things that you should
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be aware of has happend with this character. Some things written here
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isn't correct anymore. Most important to be aware of is that Rajaat is
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a member of a new viruswriting group known as Genesis. Genesis aim for
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quality, and I'm happy to see that Rajaat is not a loner anymore and have
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find a group in where he really belongs. You saw tb_bug by Rhincewind/Vlad
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and Rajaat? Well, you've seen nothing yet..
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This article has been edit by me to keep it as "clean" as possible.
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There you go..
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TU = The Unforgiven
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RA = Rajaat
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TU> You probably have read a few of our old interview's with a few other
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(fame) scene-guys, so, prepere for the same kinda questions as for
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starters.. . . 'Introduce yourself to the readers. . '
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RA> I'm Rajaat, a newcomer in the virus scene and I hope to stay longer in here
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than all other virus writers from the UK, like ARCV and Black Baron.
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TU> Yea, we can always hope so :). Do you have a question you would like me
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to ask because I don't have too much information about you (except from
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what I could obtain from your viruses/engines released)?
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RA> Heh, you can always ask me why I started to write viruses or how I got
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involved in writing these things..
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TU> Yea, ok. Let's take the normal questions as for now, and then I might know
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you better after a while :). So, why did you start write these kinda
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programs?
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RA> Eh, as long as the feds don't get to know me better! HAHAHA! The reason I
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write these viruses is simply I got nothing better to do. After some
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incident I got kicked out of college and hanging out on the streets sucks,
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so I better stick to programming.
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TU> Any specific reason to you were kicked out from school?
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RA> Yea... :) It had to do with some account stealing (from other students) and
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releasing a virus in their directory (and infected their programming
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projects), that the teachers had to check (at home, eventually). HAHA
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These stupid goofs got fucked over so they couldn't judge us..
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TU> How did you got caught in the first place?
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RA> I was one of the few assembler programmers there and ofcourse my programs
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weren't infected :) And they found a list with hacked passwords in my
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drawer.
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TU> Ah, okay, I see. . You said you had nothing better to do than to write
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viruses but why didn't you instead start to program something useful. Then
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people would appreciate your programs instead of being scared of them?
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RA> I can't think of anything useful, most utilities are being written already.
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And, like you, there are people that like viruses.
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TU> I don't like viruses, what makes you think that? ;)
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RA> Why would you otherwise write Insane Reality? Or is it something you just
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have to? I just like to program them, it's a challenge.
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TU> Now, you're the one asking questions :). So, let's continue. . . From where
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did you got your handle "Rajaat" ?
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RA> If people know Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (a role playing game) they
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also might know the Dark Sun world. Rajaat is the one that invented sorcery
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there and he is the creator of the Champions, like Andropinis.
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TU> Oh, I see. Has AD&D or role-playing in general influent you in any way when
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it comes to writing viruses?
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RA> No, I just use the names to give my children (the viruses) a name, nothing
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more and nothing less.
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TU> Isn't it kinda pervert to refer your viruses as your children?
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RA> No, see it like this: I created them, I'm the father. I use Turbo Assembler
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and you can consider it the mother, ah, I don't know, but I feel like I am
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the father of them.
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TU> Ok, I've heared stories about the viruswriters refering their computer
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to be their girlfriend and the virus is a result of love between the
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writer and the computer :). But that is another story, so is this also
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your motivation to write viruses, to create life and alternative lifeforms?
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RA> No, I just do it out of boredom. I can't think of any useful programs to
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write and writing viruses may bring fame to me, and the UK needs a boost
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I think. It has been quite silent in here for a time.
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TU> Hmm, think you already said that :). Yea, aren't you btw afraid to get
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caught by Dr.Solly and Scotland Yard computer-crime division or so?
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RA> Ofcourse I am, but that will not stop me. I am hard to trace, because I
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don't be on #virus but a more general channel and not even using the name
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Rajaat. Furthermore the viruses I spread on school weren't made by me, so
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that should give them a hard time to find out.
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TU> Which viruses did you spread anyways?
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RA> The ones that are already very common, like Junkie and Tai-Pan.
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TU> Funny, consider both of them are swedish viruses :). Hmmm, which kinda
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virus do you like (a few examples maybe) and which virus-writers do you
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look up to?
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RA> Er... I don't have many examples, but I like the viruses of Qark (to whom I
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send Andropinis (anonymously)) and of Priest, but apperently he quitted
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virus writing. I don't have many idols, because I don't want to influence
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my programming with other techniques.
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TU> Haven't you considred joining (or forming) a virus-writing group?
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RA> Yes, I wanted to join VLAD, but the danger is that the more people do know
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me, the more chance I have to get caught in the end. It's better that I do
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contributions to various magazines using a anonymous account. I don't care
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if I work alone or not.
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TU> Yea, that seems to be a smart move. Hmmm, how about contributing some new
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virus of yours to this issue as well?
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RA> Sounds good. I still have some stealth bootsector virus here somewhere on
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my disk. I will comment it a little more and then DCC it to you, ok?
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TU> Yea, send it to tuir@fotd.mcn.ru. What's your policy about destructive
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viruses, and how do you define destructive viruses?
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RA> My opinion is that a virus gets more attention if it's destructive.
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TU> I saw a polymorphic engine by you btw (Thanks for the greetings!), say,
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what kinda questions can I ask about that?
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RA> Hmmmm.. I don't really know, it's not very polymorphic and should be easy
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to crack, but it was just made to make it impossible to use a scan string
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for a virus. I just used it myself once and that's it. I don't know if
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there are other viruses that use it. Maybe I will write one engine for
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polymorphic bootsector viruses HAHAHA!
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TU> How to detect it then, with cryptoanalyze or something like that (or have
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you written detection for it yourself)?
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RA> You can use cryptanalysis for it and it's also possible to trace the
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decryptor, like TBAV does. It's just that they have to do something more
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than usual to detect it. I think the better AV'ers will have no problem
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detecting it.
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TU> Yea, stupid question of myne btw, I already knew that :). Hmm, which engine
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do you like the most? Hmm, know this (also) is a kinda stupid question to
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ask since it's like 25 (or so?) engines out there and nearly none of them
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is released with source-codes making it exteremly time-consuming to make a
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depth-in study of them all..
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RA> I never bothered to look at them closely, indeed. The ones I liked however
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are DAME (of Dark Angel), the engine in Natas, the engine in Level_3 and
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TPE 1.4, but I don't have the source code of the last mentioned.
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TU> Yea, so, why didn't you released the source-code to your engine?
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RA> Nobody would use it, though. I think I will clean up the comments and send
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it to you sometime, I don't know. RTFM seems finished to me, and
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continueing it seems a waste of time to me.
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TU> Ok, enuff about polymorphism as for now :). How would you descibe the
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perfect virus?
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RA> A virus that takes to much time to detect (by a scanner) that it better can
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be discarded from it. ;) I don't think there will be the "ultimate" virus.
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TU> Yea, polymorphism might be a step toward the right direction, but it's
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still far from the final solution.
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RA> The engines of today prevent easy recognition, but they lack the protective
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mechanisms that are needed to conceal the virus from debugging.
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TU> So, you think an utility that would support stealth, advanced-polymorpism,
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retro-functions of any kind would be a logical step to do?
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RA> No. I don't believe in stealth techniques very much, except for bootsector
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and partition record infections. File stealth is too "fragile" to do. I
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believe in polymorphic engines than also generate polymorhic anti-trace
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routines, like the Ultimute engine, but more advanced.
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TU> Hm, retro-functions and polymoprism might fuck the AV'ers and the
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researchers up, but for the normal user (the one's who get struck with a
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virus) it won't really matter. If they notice a virus they won't remove
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(or debug) it themself anyway (not in most cases that is). Then - stealth
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might be better for spreading purposes because they won't detect it in
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ages. . Like with Natas or a virus of that capacity. How easy is that do
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detect for the average Jow-Blow?
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RA> Hmmmm, I still don't like it. Look for example at Andropinis. It's very
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easy to detect in .COM files, but there is also the MBR infection that is
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stealth indeed. If I have to use stealth on files, it would probably only
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hide the file size and I would not bother to write a heap of code just to
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make it also full stealth. (* Full stealth = disinfection/redirection on
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files as well, - ED *)
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TU> The package you described above called "Ultimute engine" which Stormbringer
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(read: Black Wolf) wrote, what does it do?
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RA> Oh, I didn't knew Black Wolf = Stormbringer! It's an engine that generates
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a decryptor peppered with some antidebugger tricks, but the way he did it
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can't stop the people who know debugging/tracing tricks well. I have a few
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ideas, but I don't know if I will make such an engine, but it's on my
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"to do" list.
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TU> What ideas? Or is this private information? :)
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RA> I'll tell you when the product is finished, I don't want to reveal anything
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until it's ready, as with my virus project I am working on.
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TU> Ok, how about ART (Antigen's Radical Tunneler), any comments about it?
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RA> I've looked at it and it looks very nice, but I won't use other peoples
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code in my viruses. I rather bother to make an own tunneler instead.
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TU> What makes the tunneling code in ART so special you think? Isn't it a waste
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of bytes to use as much as 1407 bytes for tracing interrupts?
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RA> Yes, consider this: you program a virus that uses ART (1407 bytes), regular
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code to infect COM and EXE files (maybe 400 bytes), bootsector and
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partition record infection (512 bytes in every case) and some stealth and a
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polymorphic engine (larger than 1024 bytes for sure). That will make a
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*huge* virus!
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TU> Yea, but was that really an answer to my question? :)
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RA> Let me put it this way. There are far more easier tricks that also work and
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that will take at most 400 bytes. I don't care if ART works with DosEmu of
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Linux. How many people will use that? I rather write a normal tracer that
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detects and skips TBDRIVER in memory. There are a few other monitors that
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block tracing, but TBDRIVER is the most common program used, I think.
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TU> Yea, and it only takes about 15 bytes to disable tbdriver anyway, a lot
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of viruses does that, but do you consider it a waste of bytes to include
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ART for tunneling-stealth?
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RA> Yes, I do. The idea was very nice, but it won't be used by virus writers. I
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rather use that 15 byte code you mentioned and then trace to the original
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interrupt 21h.
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TU> Yea, ok. It's the same thing as with polymorphic engines; Noone will use
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them except for their creators, still Antigen released 2 versions of ART,
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but no virus using them. Hmm. Ok, let's go on with something complete
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different, shall we?
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(* Sidnote: VLAD#5 included a virus of Antigen which used ART, this
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interview was though done before vlad5 was released *)
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RA> Uh, OK... (Eddie Murphy intonation (RAW))
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TU> Ok ;). So, how are you in a private matter? As most news-paper would
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describe us (remorsless, rebellion teen with an attitude, a social failure,
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a malajusted misfit, a . . . . :)), or ?
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RA> I'm a very quiet person, there aren't many people that like me, because I
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don't value properties belonging to someone else. Hence the virus spread on
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college. I didn't care if they lost their project because of that. The
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only thing I like is an escape from reality, preferably with booze or
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role-playing.
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TU> Yea, "rather flee the (insane) reality of today, then facing it" :). So,
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how did your parents react when you was kicked out from school? Mine
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didn't like that very much I can tell.
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RA> Hmmm. After their divorce they just fight with eachother about the house
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and the money and me and don't listen to me anymore. I can't talk things
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with them and when they found out I was kicked from school my mother just
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said I should not hang out on the streets.
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TU> So, your mother wants half? :)
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RA> Half of what? I don't like talking about it, it caused me a lot of pain.
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TU> Uh, (Just a RAW joke, ya'know.. no worries!). Hmm (sorry!), So when did you
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start with computers and this sort of things?
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RA> Hmmmm, I don't exactly know at what age I started (I think 12 or so), but I
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used a MSX at that time. At college I had to work with PCs, and to buy me
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off, my father purchased a computer for me (to get in favor again). Now I
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use his present to make viruses HAHAHA!
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TU> You think he would approve?
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RA> I don't know. I never told him and I won't care either. I rather leave my
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parents at once and live on my own.
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TU> You seem to say "I don't care" often :)
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RA> Why should I care about something if nobody cares about me?
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TU> Probably because people only will care about you if you care about them
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in the first place?
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RA> I once cared about my parents, you know. But after they divorce they seem
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to have forgotten they still had a son. And why should I bother cleaning up
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their messy life? But enough about that, let's continue talking about
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viruses.
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TU> Sure. How many and which viruses has you written to this day?
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RA> I have written 3 resident EXE viruses, 2 resident companion viruses (one of
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them uses interrupt 28h (dos idle) to infect as fast as possible), 2
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non-resident COM infectors (one using RTFM) and a multipartite COM infector
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(Andropinis) and now a stealth bootsector virus (Uniform).
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TU> Quite some collection. . . Which virus group did you vote as no #1 as for
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VLAD#5, and how does your voting in general look?
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RA> Vote? I didn't get a vote thing!
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TU> Uh, ok, nevermind, it was a voting (kinda who's the best thing concerning
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groups, viruses, writers and so forth.. ), but ok, without your result
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being published, which group are you in favour of?
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RA> I would rank VLAD as the best, because they are very inventive. The best
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virus I saw was Natas, it was very good programmed.
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TU> Ok, now, let's discuss av-programs/persons and so forth so the AVers also
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can enjoy this thing, shall we?
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RA> What do you want to discuss about them? You mean if I like some of them
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or not, if their program is good or not? Hmmm, I don't like AVers at all,
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they all bear some resemblence with Alan Solomon, so I don't wish to talk
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to them. The antivirus program I like is TBAV, F-PROT and AVP, the rest is
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not interesting, save for spoofing them with a virus.
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TU> I agree you concerning the AV-programs, however I'm afraid that my attitude
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towards the AVers somehow has become better during the years - less hostile
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and perhaps less agressive as well. Hm, why do you have this
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bad-attitude towards AVers that hasn't done anything to you?
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RA> They would if they had the chance to, I don't say I hate them, but I won't
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discuss things with them or even talk to them. They won't see me as a
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person, but as a virus writer, so I consider talking to them as a waste of
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time.
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TU> Ok, what if I was a researcher as well, wouldn't you then talk to me
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either?
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RA> I don't like dual edged swords, if you know what I mean. So, then I won't
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talk to you.
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TU> Ok, before we continue then, sure I make an anti-virus to one of my own
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viruses, but released another better virus in the remover for it, would
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that be acceptable? (* This is the Petra-rm story.. *)
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RA> HAHAHA! Why yes, ofcourse it does. Making a remover for a virus doesn't say
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you are a researcher, and spreading a virus in it is a great idea. I think
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I'll hack McAfees scanner for a virus of mine.
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TU> Yea, that is a great idea I think. But I did a lot of research before
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writing that virus, now - isn't that to be a virus-researcher? :)
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RA> Yes, but not acknowledged. With researchers I mean Alan Solomon, Fridrik
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Skulason, Frans Veldman etc.
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TU> Yea, AV-researchers that is. Ah well, nevermind. so what makes you think
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the AV-programs named above makes them interesting?
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RA> The programs do their job, as supposed to. F-PROT has an accurate
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identification, TBAV has pretty good heuristics and AVP has very nice virus
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demonstrations in it.
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TU> Any comments about VSUM and Patricia Hoffman?
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RA> HAHAHAHHA!!
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TU> That is suppose to mean that she is the biggest failure in the
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community?
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RA> No, not exactly, she made money with it, so she is not a failure. But I
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don't value VSUM.
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TU> Because of the oh-so-holy messed up descriptions of 99% of all viruses
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included within?
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RA> Yes. I don't know how she manages that. She surpassed me with fucking up
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descriptions. I just described Andropinis very well, so she can simply copy
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it into her database. I don't like if she messes up descriptions of my
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viruses.
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TU> No, who wants his children to be called cripples when they're not? Hmmm :).
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RA> Definitely not me. I think she lost track describing viruses when the rate
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of discovered viruses increased rapidly. Hmmm, this turns out to be a whole
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conversation instead of an interview, but that's no problem :)
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TU> When the viruses began to increase very rapidly was in 1992 or so I reckon,
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was you into viruses back then?
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RA> No, I didn't write viruses, I just collected them. I even bought "The Virus
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Clinic" at that time. But he got busted by the beast.
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TU> are you refering Alan Solomon as the beast?
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RA> He is! He just does that to get his face in front of the cameras again and
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doesn't give a shit about the rest.
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TU> I agree ;). Hence the articles published in IR#5. Hm, but what do you think
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about his program?
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RA> I never seen it, just heard of it. It's supposed to be good, but I can't
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judge it.
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TU> Due to the fact that you hate him?
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RA> No, because I don't have his product. I don't hate him, maybe fear him is a
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more appropiate word for it. He's one bad motherf*cker.
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TU> Ok, so have you been involved in any other 'underground' activity
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than virus-writing?
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RA> I used to hang out often in #hack, but since I started writing viruses I
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left that channel to be more secure. I am not affiliated with any other
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activities, I just started writing because the UK was too silent.
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TU> Well, not very strange due to the fact that Dr.Solly has succeded in busted
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pretty much about every virus-writer in the UK. I think you are the only
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english viruswriter left...
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RA> Maybe there are others, I don't know. But I am certainly the only one that
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now surfaces, yes. Maybe the fact that I am the only virus writer in the UK
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makes me a bit famous. .
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TU> Yea, and maybe this little thought-to-be-an-interview helps?
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RA> I don't know and do not care either. I just felt like talking to you. Maybe
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it helps, indeed, and if that's so, it's fine.
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TU> So, how has the 'scene' and viruswriting influent you in real life?
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RA> It did not influent my life at all. Just instead of trading viruses I
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started to write them myself. I think that's all. I don't have many
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activities beside computing, except for drinking in a pub or so.
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TU> You seem to spend a awful lot of time behind the computer because you can't
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find something better to do with your life. You think it's really worth it?
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RA> I spend about 6 hours per day behind the keyboard, and about 5 days a week,
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with maybe the exception if there's a good movie on the television. Friday
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and Saturday are my "day off".
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TU> Seems to me that your viruswriting is more or less a job than a hobby, is
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that right?
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RA> It can't be seen as a job, because it serves no purpose at all. But I have
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to stand up, otherwise the United Kingdom will perish in the virus
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community.
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TU> Say, so what purpose does a politican serve?
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RA> Our goverment is real fucked up. Have you ever seen them? If they agree to
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something they shout "Yeah" and otherwise they make sounds like pigs.
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That's also a good description of them, pigs.
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TU> Agreed ;). So what is your opinion about politicans trying to forbid the
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creation, spreading and even collecting/possesing of computer viruses?
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RA> That will also include the victims of viruses, not just the underground.
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TU> Yeah, ok - so remove the possesing then, do you think creation of computer-
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viruses should be considered a crime in any way whatsoever?
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RA> They just make it illegal because they don't have other good defences. I
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think it's stupid. They can't do that, because they can't check everyones
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computer.
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TU> Here we go with the clipper-chip again :). Hmmm, but see it as a matter of
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principle then - not in any use (like most other laws which only works
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theoretically), do you find it wrong or even illegal to create viruses?
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RA> No I think it's perfectly legal to make viruses. What I do on MY computer
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is MY business, and not of the government, NSY or Alan Solomon! A law that
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is just theorie is also utter useless, because it can't be used then.
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TU> What about spreading? Then the virus is not only on your own computer.
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RA> If people want 'em, they got 'em. If unsuspecting victims get a virus, they
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probably did not take the proper defences. If they are ignorant to viruses,
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it's their own fucking fault, just like if you fuck without a condom you
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might get AIDS.
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TU> I fuck without condoms :). Anyway - people know how to protect themself
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against real-life viruses (like aids), but can you really expect everyone
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to use bullet-proof anti-virus programs running TSR eating memory, or
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people to debug/disasm a program before running them?
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RA> If you fuck without condoms that's your own choice. About users protecting
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their systems: they don't have to be ASM experts, just check the incoming
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(mostly illegal) programs or use an integrity checker, like the one of
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Wolfgang Stiller. That should keep out most of the viruses.
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TU> Still it's viruses that could sneak by his program, does they also deserve
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to get struck with a (let's say) destructive virus, slowly corrupting their
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data, making them lose their jobs, etc?
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RA> No, then IM (* Integrity Master - TU *) is a ill-designed program and
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should be improved. If a virus can sneak past it, it means IM (it's an
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example of a CRC program) is not doing it's job right. It's not the fault
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of the computer user then. And if he is in deep shit I don't really care,
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but they better choose another program then.
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TU> Then who is to blame for them loosing their job (or whatever)? The creator
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of the virus who (let's say) uploaded it to a vx-board, the sysop of the
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vx-board, the one who downloaded it and runned it on his harddisk, the
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person in question who copied a shareware-program from the computer in
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question (without knowing it was infected), the author of Integrity Master,
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the system administrator who is hired to keep the computers secure and
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clean?
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RA> HAHAHA! You won't trick me with questions like that! I am not to blame
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whatsoever. The sysop of the vx-bbs can't be blamed, because all his
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leechers know it's a virus. If the person that downloaded it runs it on
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his own system it's his own fault. The person that copies shareware
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and brings it to his work is out of line, but shouldn't lose his job for
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that. IM can't be blamed for the man losing his job, only for mal-
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functioning. The system administrator can't be blamed for the man losing
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his job either, but he is not able to do what he is hired for: securing
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the system.
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TU> So, you're saying that noone is to be held responsible for him losing his
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job and even the whole fucking corporation being ruined and that it was
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all by a fucking coincidende? Like fate as some girl would have put it?
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RA> HO! Now you make another assumtion. Now you say the whole company is
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ruined! That the man loses his job is a stupid decision of the staff. That
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also causes people not to tell about the infection and even infecting other
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computers to stay out of trouble. And who is responsible for Lloyds going
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to the edge of ceasing to excist? They had some bad coincidences, and YES,
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a virus could be one of them.
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TU> Would you feel sorry if you had written the virus in question?
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RA> Not at all. I really don't care what would happen. I would regret if a
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person in a hospital dies for some system fault, but not a company that
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spends money from the "Names" and can't even do that right anymore. A
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hospital is there to help people, most companies are there to get richer.
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TU> How can one regret something that one never did? :)
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RA> HAHAHA! My child did it, not me! :) You have some point in there.
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TU> Ok, how can you miss something that you never had?
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RA> You won't miss life after you are dead.
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TU> Ugh, are you religious?
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RA> I'm disappointed in religion. My parents married but now you see it doesn't
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mean shit. It's just some situation, and can be undone easily, but one of
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them got hurt. And that's not my father nor my mother, but me.
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TU> You said above that you didn't want to talk about this incident, what made
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you change your mind?
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RA> It just happened. The whole thing made me realise that marriage doesn't
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mean shit and that the ritual is a farce. The people that got better of it
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was the church and the lawyers. I used to be religious once and went to
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church every Sunday. Now I do not anymore, but I still believe.
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TU> Hmmm, on channel #virus religion is quite a well discussed topics, so
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why do you believe? I mean it's not that you see any proof from a good
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god in today's soceity?
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RA> Who made this world? We weren't able to do that. But we are made in his
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own image, that's why I create. But I don't like to discuss religion now,
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because then we could chat for hours and hours.
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TU> Ok, let's have some quick discussion about religion anyways :). Then if God
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was good and created us (the human beings) from his own image, wouldn't we
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be good then as well? Or does this mean that you think mankind is good?
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RA> How can you define good if there is no evil? One cannot excist without the
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other. "Good" will lose it's meaning if there's no "evil" to compare with
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it.
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TU> Hm, nice words, but personally, I think it's just words invented by
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humans to be able to communicate better. Well, if you couldn't compare
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bad and good then everything would probably be defined as fucking
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perfect even though it wasn't, eh.. Like an Utopia or so. But since we
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have completely slitted opinions about this, we might not
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discuss this kind of things before we finish this interview. We don't
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want to argue, now do we? :).
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RA> We can, but it's out of scope for the interview (it's not that anymore
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it's a discussion that became very very large) I think.
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TU> Yea. Ok, let's us then stop talking about such things as religion.
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About that little hospital incident above, do you believe in poetical
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justice? Like if you die because of your own virus making the computers on
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the hospital when you're being operated in useless?
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RA> If that happens I have nothing to worry about anymore.
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TU> Ok, let's say that you instead of died got a nice wheel-chair for the rest
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of your life!
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RA> Then I'd rather take my own life, I think. But don't you think you are now
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going too abstract???
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TU> AH, sorry! I usually do :), when I get excited about something. . . .
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(* This wasn't ment that I got exited about Rajaat spending his life
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in a wheel-chair, btw.. I'm not that sick, really!!!) Hmm, ok, have you
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heard of any new virus writing techinques btw?
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RA> Er... I think not. It's now just combining techniques, I think. Maybe some
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people will come up with something good, but I can't think of anything new.
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TU> You think all virus-writing techniques for DOS already are invented?
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RA> No, but I just don't know what to expect anymore.
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TU> Ok, I better be going now, something else you wish to say but never had
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the oppertunity to say before?
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RA> No, I think I have said what I wanted to say. I just will continue here and
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keep NSY (* New Scotland Yard - ED *) busy for a while.
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TU> Any greetings you would like to send out?
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RA> Oh, yeah! I want to greet VLAD and P/S. I think that's all.. Oh, yeah,
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ofcourse Immortal Riot! (* Thanks :)) *)
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TU> Not any personal greetings or goto hell messages?
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RA> HAHAHA! Yes, go to hell, Dr. Solomon! And personal greetings to Qark and
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Priest, might he ever read this.
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TU> Hmm, okay, nice talking to you, see you around, (don't forget to send me
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that virus of yours), and keep up the faith! Taw-Taw :).
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RA> Sure, it was nice talking to you, I'll message you if I spot you again on
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IRC, but don't expect me to come to #virus, I better stay out of there,
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Hermanni also is there sometimes and maybe there are other researchers
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there also.
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TU> Yea, sometimes.. well, as I said, better be going, bye!
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RA> Bye!
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