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29A Issue 01 01 01
Here we are :)
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Mister Sandman
At last you can read this... after a lot of time writing viruses and fai-
ling exams, we, 29A, a spanish virus writing group, released our first
zine. And no... as you can see, 29A ain't a myth as many people thought.
We were just a bit late, that was all. Everything was right until IRC su-
ddenly came into our lifes and sucked all the time we used to dedicate to
code viruses. Anyway, and as we're intelligent, we realised that we had
to get some more time to restart creating life, and that's why we haven't
slept for more than one month and we're known nowadays in the uni as the
biggest waggers around :)
Now we are part of the virus scene, which is continuously regenerated. In
the last times we could see how many groups appeared, merged or died.
Thus, Qark and Quantum are retired and enjoying life, SVL broke up due to
some legal problems in Slovakia, Immortal Riot and Genesis merged and are
gonna release their first issue by the next two weeks, Dark Conspiracy
disappeared but many of the members founded a new group, LT, which merged
with RSA, iKx released their first zine... as you can see, this doesn't
keep moving.
There's even a new group, Computa Gangsta, which have recently released
the first issue of their zine, DHC, and seem to want to follow the steps
of YAM... or even worse!
And believe me when i say that it's very hard to face the cruel reality
and try to keep oneself's zine cool, or at least not lame :) Especially
when we speak about the first release, which is usually the most easily
criticisable (or however you spell that word) :)
About this first issue itself, we hope that you like it and even find it
interesting. Some of us (included me) didn't have the time to finish our
babies as we would like to, because we decided to meet on November 30th
and release the zine asap, so we had to hurry up some projects.
Finally, and as there were some problems we didn't count with, we had to
make one MORE delay, till we finally could release it on december 13th...
friday 13th, btw ;)
In this issue we included some tutorials (polymorphism, macro viruses...)
viral techniques (how to disable certain AVs, new install checks...), vi-
rus disassemblies (Zhengxi, V.6000...), and viruses written by us, of
course :) Have a look at the virus index, because some of them are really
interesting and/or innovate new techniques never used before.
Btw... remember we're spanish and our english skills suck a little, so
we (Mr. White and me, who are the ones who translated the articles) are
sorry about any language error you can find in this zine :)
As a last thing, and for you to know better who we are, here's the mem-
ber list, with our nicks and IRC nicks; these nicks were placed in alpha-
betical order, besides mine (bosses first) :P
Normal nick IRC nick Internet address
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Mister Sandman............... MrSandman........... mrsandman@cryogen.com
An¡bal Lecter................ A_Lecter............... lecter@cryogen.com
AVV.......................... avv....................... avv@cryogen.com
Blade Runner................. blade............ blade_runner@cryogen.com
Gordon Shumway............... Shumway............... shumway@cryogen.com
Griyo........................ Griyo................... griyo@cryogen.com
Leugim San................... LeugimSan.......... leugim_san@cryogen.com
Mr. White.................... W666.................. mrwhite@cryogen.com
Tcp.......................... Tcp....................... tcp@cryogen.com
The Slug..................... The_Slug............. the_slug@cryogen.com
VirusBuster.................. VirusBust......... virusbuster@cryogen.com
Wintermute................... Winter............. wintermute@cryogen.com
Besides the new tricks implemented in our viruses, we don't make anything
special in this issue... we're saving some info for the next issue; in
fact, i've already written a 100% working encrypted resident PE infector
and a tutorial about Windows95, and Griyo, Tcp and i have almost finished
some superinteresting virus disassemblies... this is part of what 29A#2
will be, so don't miss it! ;)
Some words from The Slug: i'm afraid because of the little jumps my arti-
cle reader sometimes suffers, but the mouse support messed some of my co-
de... anyway, if you're using mouse, it will work ok. I'm sure that the
whole Windows community will thank this to me :)
And some words from Tcp: we won't write a help file about how to use this
file browser, because you ain't supposed to be so lame. Anyway, just note
three important things which differ from other browsers:
þ There's a '#' at the bottom of the menu bar; that's the 'hot corner'
which, being pressed with the mouse, activates the screen saver, which
is the payload of the LSD virus :)
þ When reading an article, you can use the mouse buttons for performing
every kind of moving inside the file and so on. You can even convert to
a file every UUencoded file inside an article since i wrote a UUdecoder
for the file browser :)
þ There's a secret menu in this magazine... try to guess the password and
get da freak! with a good debugger, it ain't so difficult ;)
Mister Sandman,
bring me a dream.
