Here we are :) 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴�> 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 컴컴컴컴컴� 컴컴컴컴 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 Mister Sandman............... MrSandman........... mrsandman@cryogen.com An죃al 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: � 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 :) � 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 :) � 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.