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Nuclear Phreakers/Hackers/Carders
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Information File #5 - Happy Columbus Day!
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10-13-89 - Optical Illusion
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Preface
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Well, it's Friday the 13th, 1989. Yes, Columbus Day. This is the day the
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media says, "over 750,000 computers across North America and Europe will be
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hit." This Columbus Day Virus was to hit these systems on Columbus Day 1989.
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So when your system's clock would switch from 10-12-89 to 10-13-89, you
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would have the system lock up while the virus ate the File Allocation Table.
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Hence, the hard drive not booting up when you re-booted up your computer.
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The Virus
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The virus itself was supposed to have originated in England where a group of
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users decided to ruin everyone's drives on the 13th of October. How
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convenient that it happens to be Columbus day too. No one is sure exactly
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where the virus is from (what file etc.) because the way the virus works.
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What happens is that the virus attaches itself to every EXE. and COM. file
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in your main directory in c:f except the COMMAND.COM file. This is because
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90% of the virus checkers that people use check for any differences in the
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COMMAND.COM file on boot up since the last boot. The virus adds
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approximately an extra 1024 bytes to each file that is infected and keeps
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adding itself to more and more EXE's and COM. files as they enter and leave
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your c:f directory. If you run one of these files that are infected, nothing
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will happen. This is because of the type of virus. Remember this is not a
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trojan that you run that will fuck you over right away. It just sits there
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until the systems' clock turns to 12:00:01 on the 13th of October. Some
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people that believe they are infected with the virus think that if they skip
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the 13th on their clock that they will be safe. This is not so. The virus
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will mess up the drive on the 13th or any day after Columbus day.
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Who Will Get Hit?
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The people that first discovered the virus say that approximately 75%
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percent of the people that get the virus will be from modeming. Yes, that's
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us. "Damn!" you might say, but this is just bullshit. Everyone has an equal
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chance to get this virus. It is true, however, that modemers have more of a
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chance to get it because we get so many more files in and out of our system
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than the average Joe that goes and buys Wordperfect v5.0 for $500.00 bucks.
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Another misconception is that pirates will get it much more than public
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domain users. This is not true either. It is basically the other way
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around. The public domain users have a much higher chance in checking the
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virus than anyone else because of the bulletin board is infected than every
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EXE. and COM. file that is downloaded (unzipped) is also infected and hence,
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fucking whoever is a downloader on that board.
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In Conclusion
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Don't be a leech and download and run everything you get your grubby hands
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on if you don't want to get hit be this or any other virus. A few hints to
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saving yourself from a trojan or virus is simply, make backups. If something
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is important on your drive then back it up. Secondly, don't be paranoid.
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Don't go get every virus checker or scanner around because most of them
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create a virus on your system in the first place.
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Note From the Author
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Well, this was my first information Gfile as a N.A.R.C. member. I hope it
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cleared up some misconceptions about the virus. Some of my next Gfiles for
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N.A.R.C. will be on advanced carding for those that already know about
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carding and would like to learn a few original and interesting (not to
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mention, easy) ways to get some good shit. For those of you that would like
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to find about carding from a beginner's point of view, get a hold of
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the Gfile I wrote called, "Getting Serious About Carding" or call one of
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local N.A.R.C. members for some more information.
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(C)opyright 1989 N.A.R.C.
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You can reach N.A.R.C. members at
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The Nuclear Wasteland
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Balanced pH
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Critical Condition
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Lost Souls Domain ][
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