VCM2: Interview to mr-virus
by VirusBuster
- How old are you? Where do you come from?
31, baden near vienna (austria)
- Why did you start collecting viruses?
i am the webmaster of a german antivirus-support-homepage. many people send virii to me - so i began to trade.
- For how long have you been collecting viruses?
since 15 years collecting,
since 2 years trading
- Did you ever stop trading viruses and continued after a time? If yes, for how long were you inactive?, why did you stop?, why did you decide to continue?
no
- What are your virus statistics actually? (AVP/F-Prot/... unique/total)
kav - 7.4.2004
total: 42335
unique: 41528
- What antivirus do you usually use for making logs? Do you use any other antivirus from time to time? If yes, what are them?
i only use kaspersky antivirus for windows
- Do the people near you (parents, friends, ...) know you collect viruses?
yes, they do not understand it - but they know.
- Do you consider necessary to avoid telling people you collect viruses? If yes, why?
i only tell it people who i know very good.
- Do you avoid trading with any collector? If yes, who and what are the reasons?
i only trade with people who i can trust in.
- Is there any virus collector that you admire for any reason? If yes, who and what are the reasons to admire him?
yes, germano. he helps me very often.
- Did you ever work for an antivirus company?
no
- Did you ever trade with an antivirus company or an antivirus researcher?
yes
- Do you keep stuff that you can not/do not want to trade?
no
- Did you ever exchange your complete virus collection with other collector?
yes
- In your opinion, what is the best and what is the worst antivirus scanner? Why?
the best is kaspersky, the worst all other. :-)
- What is the program you use to process logs?
vs2000
- What is the program you use to rename files?
vs2000
- What is the program you use to sort your collection?
vs2000
- Do you check for fake viruses? If yes, what is the program you use for doing that?
vs2000
- Do you use any additional program for doing any virus collecting task? If yes, what are those programs and what they do?
no
- How is your collection sorted and stored? Do you keep viruses compressed or uncompressed? What is the directory structure?
the viruses are (sometimes) compressed, i rename them to their crc32 checksum, they are stored in bulk-style.
- Do you make backups of your collection? If yes, How often and what is the media you use to make backups?
yes, every night, media is an external harddisk or an DVD-RW.
- Did you used to use VS2000 package tools before it became viriiware? If yes, what is your opinion about the change from freeware to viriiware?, Did you continue using VS2000 package tools after the change?
yes i use them since i started collecting virii. viriiware is an nice idea.
- What is your opinion about the viriiware?
i am only using the traderfuctions, i dont need the other tools and options.
- Your greetings, if any, go here:
to all who know me. ;-)
