SWEDISH VIRUS HISTORY ===================== Umm.. I don't really know where to begin, but since DY was first as a group, and made the second virus in Sweden (the first one was Swedish Disaster), i'll start with them i guess.. What i have heard Tormentor started out with the TORMENTOR virus - a hack of MURPHY - which sent lots of people's drives to never-never land. About 400 reported infections in Sweden (and lots of nuked drives as well i guess). His first version however had a bug so it didn't went off, but the later 10 (?) version surely did :)) There was some real fighting on "SWE_VIR" in those days, when you also think about his 1701 mutation aswell) I wasn't into this scene at the time, so all i know is what i've heard from people that knew him. After a while he started making viruses from scratch, like for example the 'CREEPING TORMENTOR' that nuked your drives if you typed in a special word, and he also made a small 'virus lesson' for people to learn how to make non-overwriting stuff, so i must say that he helped the Swedish scene up on it's feet. Then other people in DY made viruses like YOUTH, PCBB, Silence of the lambs, and so on. DY had some nice connections like DiRE in Finland, and Charlie in Norway. I've also heard that a friend to Tormentor called Spider got good connections with diffrent virus-systems located in Bulgaria... DY (in Sweden) quitted with the destructive kind of programming for about one year ago from now, and I must say that the whole swedish virus scene broked up totally since the "bust" of all the VX bbs:es. (Look under Mikael Winterkvist). DY (Demoralized Youth), are still writing some viruses, but I can hardly say they're any group, since Tormentor, and all other coders in Sweden stopped with the virus coding when Tormentor quitted. A Dreamer in Norway (Hello Charlie?), have coded Bizarre (a RES/ Polymophic/COM/SYS). And also the Hitler virus (a.k.a 'Dreamer') A RES/COM/Size-Stealth virus. He still signs with the "DY". Some sort of a "one-man-crew". Then there were some other groups around aswell, and they were named BETA BOYS and LINE NOISE. BETA BOYS had some connections in Finland, with a dude there named Firefly. They made some viruses like SWEDISH BOYS, (DEATH)-RATTLE, MEXICAN MUD and so on..(Read the interview with A.N.O.I). These viruses were very "OK", and now, when i have heard about all "mis- takes" with the BetaBoys viruses (VSUM), i dare to say that this group was a very active virus writing group. They have NOT hacked viruses like vienna, just because the infected files are marked with "seconds 62". The VSUM-crap failed with un-encrypt some message in some virus too, and some other "routines" were left out. This viruses written by The Beta Boys, was surely good... LINE NOISE.. (the other virus "writing" group) ripped their names from the dude in INC, and the leader had ripped his handle too (MORBID ANGEL). What a creative brain they must have (:-)). They made some non-resident, over-writing *.COM "infectors", like BANANA (MINI-45 hack), MINI-45B (another MINI-45 hack), MINI-35 (YET another MINI-45 hack), DRUID (non-resident ow-crapp), BLOOD LUST (yet another non-res ow crapp). Their last virus (PRIME), was a non-ow .COM infector, which didn't changed directory (gee, four more lines to add a "dot-dot", and you didn't managed that your lazy suckers). Shortly said nothing to scream hurray for..Morbid Angel surely had a great bbs (Swedish Virus Exchange), you could say that they (the board then:)), atleast pushed the scene up a bit. Now everything was fine until one special looser showed up, making money by dragging other people in the shit.. (guess who?) YES, the one and only..Mikael Winterkvist (SysOp on Computer Security Center, and reporter), he called around under the handle 'ESMOND DURY'. He said he was from Italy, and had nuked alot of systems, aswell as that he was wanted by the police there. The thruth you ask? Just as i said before.. only a reporter but a very well paid one, after selling his article to many of the Swedish newspapers. This way the scene went down for a long while. One person got away from the shit because of that his father was a reporter on another news-paper, and could have given MW some shit too if he'd started trouble with 'his boy'. This person was MORBID ANGEL / LINE NOISE, the sysop on Swedish Virus Exchange (A.K.A The Bermuda Triangle). Two new virusgroups has now started to make a new era, that's us, and ANOI (A New Order [Of] Intellegence). They have released two viruses until date, both resident, *.COM infectors on a "DIR". One named 'CYBERCIDE' and the other 'MY LITTLE PONY'. Both are aswell "stealth- sizer's" disinfectors on the file when it's opened (for exampled "scanned" with Mcafee). They're not encrypted since there were no need to encrypt a file when the virus will un-infect the file when it's opened. Encryption routines are also very easy to set a "string" to, since they're very "personally". The viruses they've coded have pretty similar effects, but they're still both coded out from scratch, which means, My Little Pony are NOT a hack or modification on Cyber- Cide. OK, now you know this.. but how did WE started you ask? Oh, well.. here we go again.. (very short, but anyhow..) I had been in the business for a short period (« a year or something), and made some viruses out of others scraps when i met the other leader, known as The Unforgiven. He was totally new in the modem-world, but was a fine young man, with great ambition, plans, and hope, so i chosed to join up with him. We thought of a name for a while, and he came up with the name we still have now.. 'IMMORTAL RIOT', which perhaps give you a slight idea of what we're up to (mega-smile!) Then we made some muta- tions, and released a magazine. In that we DIDN'T had any H/P/A and so on.. just pure virus style. And as some of the larger groups says, it's at least better to learn one thing than to go around talking shit about being an phreaker just for having some AT&T's in it or something, right? This article will probably end up in our second issue, so we're still kind of new, anyways.. I then got my hands of a letter in VL-ISSUE, which said that C.T.H (Chalmers - The famoust Technologic School located in Gothenburg) had had been infected by a polymorphic, resident, bootsector, COM/EXE/SYS virus.. and the one that had to fix the computers was almost about to start crying.. then when he sent it to Dr. Salomon and Mcafee. It was a non-resident, *.COM and *.EXE infector, didn't even change library. HAHA, what a jerk, didn't even check things up first.. oh, well.. if the world's like that.. it will be easy to get famouse (mega-smile!) Anyhow, i hope you enjoy this magazine, and have a nice day.. = METAL MILITIA =