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¶2 Interview - Erik Løvendahl Sørenesen
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¶2R: Before we start this interview,
I'd like you to write some short text
about yourself. If you feel like it,
you can write your "Computer-History"
aswell.
¶1E: ¶3?
¶2R: What hardware have you got?
¶1E: I have got an Amiga 2000 B with
Kickstart 1.2/1.3/2.0, 145 MB HD and 8
MB Ram. Further on I have a 1081
Monitor, (The good old one, with
better resolution than the new 1084),
a Star Laserprinter LP 4 with
Postscript modul and 2 MB RAM, a
Robtics HST modem V42 38.400 Baud, a
Sharp Z60 3 colour copymachine, an
ordinary group 3 fax (9600 Baud) and
at last a brand new 386/33 PC .
So one can say, that our HQ here in
Denmark looks like a little company,
which it also is, though we are a
non-profit organisation.
¶2R: You have been working with
viruses/viruskillers a very long time,
when and why did you start with it?
¶1E: It all started about 5 years ago,
when I got my first Amiga virus. I
stored it and also the following
viruses I got, so after a time I had
got a big collection. Many times with
help from computer friends, yes some
of them was drowning in viruses ,so it
was very easy to get hold on viruses
then.
In the beginning, I stored the
viruses to controll if the
viruskillers could kill the viruses,
but after a while I had so many
viruses that I began to send them to
programmers who made good
viruskillers. This is how Safe Hex
International really started.
¶2R: Have you ever programmed/made a
virus yourself?
¶1E: What.......did you say ?, do you
think I am STUPID !!! No, it is after
my oppinion only potensforstyrrede
(This is Danish, read stupid..-Ed)
young kids, who does such things.
Most of them don't know, that if they
get caught, they can get 4-5 years in
prison. I find it hard to believe,
that they don't realize, how big
troubles they make, when they make
such viruses. Today everybody talk
about saving our biological
environment, but what about the
computer-environment? Many
generations will suffer from the
growing number of viruses, that's why
computer virus must be stopped, if not
we will get the same serious problems,
that we have with pollution of our
biological environment. It can
develop into a catastrophe where one
for example can't use a modem or swap
a couple of programmes with a friend.
¶2R: You are the main founder of the
"Safe Hex" organisation. How has the
developing of "Safe-Hex" been after
you started it?
¶1E: Today we have about ca. 250 so
called members, it means peoples, who
regular works for us and keep in touch
with us. We have not got any
member-list or something. When one
send us a new virus, send an article,
which has been cut out from a
magazine, or upload our viruskiller to
some BBS's, one work for us.
But there are also many, who has not
got the time for this work, they
donate maybe 50$ to our virus-fond,
which is a reward we have promised for
the name and address of a virus
programmer. Today we have got 3000$
in this reward-fond.
¶2R: Do you think "Safe-Hex" will be
able to stop all the virus problems in
the future?
¶1E: We will never be able to stop
people from making viruses, but I hope
that we can stop most of them by
scaring them with our reward, which is
on their head, and leave the rest of
the work to the police.
¶2R: "Safe-Hex" will give a $1000 award
to anyone who can give name and
address of a virus programmer. Have
you caught any virus-programmers so
far?
¶1E: No, not yet, but I don't care, it
is the preventive effect we speculate
in. We have got a few applications
about some guys who have made a virus
for a friend or something.
To go to the police, we have got to
have good evidences, which means that
there should preferably, be more than
one who know the virus programmer, the
virusen must be wellknown, and be a
real virus. There are for example
made some pseudo viruses like the
SystemZ and HCS viruses, these viruses
are more a kind of viruskillers so in
cases like this, we can't use our
informations to anything.
¶2R: You have also been complaining a
about that computer magazines give
false information about viruses to
beginners. Can you give any concrete
examples on this?
¶1E: Yes, unfortunately all the
American computer magazines is very
retarded when it comes to information
about virus and viruskillers. I mean
that in one way they are just as
guilty for all the viruses we have
today, as the virus programmers, when
they for example still recommend
Virusx as the best viruskiller, (it is
2 years old and must be characterized
as a security-risk, if it is used
today, (it knows about 25 viruses).
¶2R: What is you opinion about
swappers/modemtraders/Boards?
¶1E: Yes, what shall I mean? If we
didn't have the pirates and the BBS's,
I don't think it would have been sold
a fraction of the number of computers
sold today. So we have much to thank
them for, but I hope that one buy some
programmes oneselves now and then.
The softwarehouses should also
survive, so it is in every ones
interest that one respect eachother a
bit more than what is the case today.
It can't work to chase the pirates
like the softwarehouses do. The
pirates, (I don't like this word, it
doesn't fit at all.), has done a good
job with getting the computer sold as
much as it has. I doubt that it was
sold more than 2-3 %, if one had to
pay $2.500- $3.500 for just a few
programmes.
In the music-industry one can easily
live with people copying records and
tapes from the radio or borrow a
record of some friends. I think the
software-houses are over-reacting.
¶2R: When do you get really pissed?
¶1E: Hyklere! (Danish -Ed)
¶2R: Which person do you admire most ?
Why ?
¶1E: My wife,because she is so patient
with me, when I work day and night in
front of my computer.
¶2R: What is the most negative
thing about yourself?
¶1E: I am too fatt 90 kg/176 cm
¶2R: Is there something you can't live
without?
¶1E: Cigaretts
¶2R: What did you do yesterday?
¶1E: I was writting about 15 letters to
some people in our virus group.
¶2R: Describe a perfect evening:
¶1E: Vine, wimmen, candellight, and the
final....
¶2R: Let's go for some favorites...
What is you favorite..
¶1Program: Cygenus Ed Professional
¶2Virus (?): I hate them!
¶1Programmer: Peter Stuer, who have
made the viruskiller BootX
¶2Hardware: My harddisk and my modem.
¶1Music: Michael Jackson
¶2Book: "Amiga 500 for brugere", which
is a new, easy-understanding book in
Danish for all Amiga users, who want
more than to play Pacman.
¶1Food: Hamburger with vegetables and
pomesfrites
¶2Drink: Coca Cola
¶1Deodorant: "Mens Wonder", it works
perfectly on wimmen
¶2Amiga Musican: Are there any good ?
(Yes ! Are you deaf or something ?
-Ed)
¶1Amiga Graphican: I am almost going to
answer the same here !; but I got
impressed by Budbrains Megademo nr 1,
it is just fantasic well made. (Is it?
How many demos have you seen ?-Ed)
¶2R: Are you involved in politics?
What kind of politics seems nice to
you?
¶1E: No, I am cured long time ago.
¶2R: Now I'll write down some words,
and you just write what first comes to
your mind.
¶1Lamer: @$.../***;...(¾/... føg
for pokker (Danish, again.... -Ed)
¶2Crime: Virus
¶1Sex: I love it!
¶2Drugs: Cigaretter
¶1Rock 'n' Roll: Noise !
¶2Death: Live
¶1Green umbrellas: Rain
¶2Safe ASCII: Txt.
¶1The End: The start
¶2R: Well, I guess that's all. So now
you are able to write anything you'd
like to...
¶1E:(No answer..)
¶3(¶1I had to translate the answers from
Danish into English, so it might seem
a bit strange....¶3)