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1989-07-26
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"We ain't the phucking Salvation Army."
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C O R R U P T E D P R O G R A M M E R S I N T E R N A T I O N A L
* * * present * * *
CPI Virus Standards - Protect yourself and your friends
By Ashton Darkside (DUNE / SATAN / CPI)
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DISCLAIMER: This text file is provided to the masses for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
ONLY! The author does NOT condone the use of this information in any manner
that would be illegal or harmful. The fact that the author knows and spreads
this information in no way suggests that he uses it. The author also accepts
no responsibility for the malicious use of this information by anyone who
reads it! Remember, we may talk alot, but we "just say no" to doing it.
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One of the main problems with viruses is that once you set one loose,
it is no longer under your control. I propose to stop this by introducing some
standards of virus writing that will enable them to be deactivated whenever
they enter a 'friendly' (CPI) system. In the long run, even the author of the
virus is not immune to being attacked. The following are what I have termed the
CPI standards for writing viruses. They will allow a virus to easily check any
system they are being run on for a type of 'identity badge'. If it is found,
the virus will not infect the system it is being run on. The other standards
are mostly written around this.
CPI Standards for writing viruses -
1 - The virus will have an 'active period' and an 'inactive period'.
The active periods will be no more than one year in length (to make
it more difficult to discover the virus). You may release different
versions of your virus with different 'active periods'. It is not
recommended that your virus deactivate itself after the set active
period, as this would enable people to deactivate viruses by using
their computer with the date set to 2069 or something. It is also
required that activation periods begin on January 1 and end on
December 31. This will coincide with the changing identity codes.
2 - The virus will check for an identity code by executing Interrrupt
12h with the following register settings: AX - 4350, BX - 4920,
CX - AB46, DX - 554E. If the system is friendly, then a pointer
will be returned in CX:DX to an ASCIIZ (0-terminated) string which
will have different contents in different years. The codes are not
to be included in any text file, and should only be given through
E-mail on CPI affiliated systems. You can always ask me by sending
me mail at The Andromeda Strain BBS. If a system is detected as
friendly, the virus will not attempt to infect or damage it, but it
is ok to display a little greeting message about how lucky the
user was.
3 - We very much encourage you to upload your virus, along with a breif
description on the workings into the CPI section at The Andromeda
Strain BBS. Only CPI members will know about your virus. This is
so that CPI members can share techniques and it also allows us to
verify that the identity check works. If we see any improvements
that could be made, such as ways to streamline code, better ways of
spreading, etc. we will inform you so that you can make the changes
if you wish.
4 - It is also suggested that you use ADS standard for virus storage on
infected disks. This meathod uses disk slack space for storage and
is more thoroughly described in a previous text file by me. I think
that this is the most effective and invisible way to store viruli.
5 - A list of CPI-Standard viruli will be avaliable at all times from
The Andromeda Strain BBS, to CPI users. Identity strings will also
be available to anyone in CPI, or anyone who uploads source code to
a virus which is 100% complete except for the Identity string (it
must be written to CPI-Standards). Non-CPI members who do this will
be more seriously considered for membership in CPI.
Ashton Darkside
Dallas Underground Network Exchange (DUNE)
Software And Telecom Applications Network (SATAN)
Corrupted Programmers International (CPI)
PS: This file (by itself) has approx 2.5k of slack.