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- 40Hex Volume 1 Issue 2 0004
-
- Interview with Skism One - AKA Lord SSS (triple S)
-
- This interview was taken by Hellraiser on July 7, 1991 in Washington
- Square Park, Manhatten.
-
- HR: So what got you started in the virus business?
-
- SSS: Well, I used to write graffiti all over and that got sort of
- played out, so I needed something else distructive to do. So
- I started getting into computers, then the next thing you know
- I'm writing viruses.
-
- HR: What was you first experence with viruses?
-
- SSS: Well the first time I heard of them was when that dickhead got
- arrested for putting the worm...
-
- HR: You mean Morris?
-
- SSS: Yeah that asshole, it was on the news and all that - so I got
- to thinking, that would be a cool thing to do.
-
- HR: What was the first virus you ran across?
-
- SSS: Ha... Some dick gave me a copy of (pause) it think it was
- Norton 4.0 when it first came out. So I took it home and put
- it on my hard drive. The next thing you know all this weird
- shit starts going on. Like programs won't run and this little
- box opens up on the bottom of my screen all of a sudden. So I
- get a copy of SCAN, then I find out almost all my files are
- infected with Jerusalem.
-
- HR: What did you do?
-
- SSS: Well I re-formatted the drive and examined the copy of Jeru for
- months. Then one day I used a Hex editor to change the suMSDOs
- string to SKISM-1. Then I went to all the computers I could
- find and infected them. The next thing you know my friend
- shows me this list with my name on it. It was Patti Hoffmans
- document. Shit, I thought I was the man back then.
-
- HR: Then what?
-
- SSS: Then - well I got into assembler and dissasembly and I started
- to learn how to modify the code and all that. The next thing
- you know I had made my own virus from the scraps of Jeru.
-
- HR: Captian Trips, right?
-
- SSS: Yeah, sort of. Then someone I know sent it to all the boards
- in town under a trojan name and fucked a lot of peoples shit
- up. Oh well. Then I guess I grew out of the scavenger mode
- and started writting my own shit, from scratch.
-
- HR: Like what?
-
- SSS: Well they were all called Skism so and so, like Skism 10, Skism
- 11 and all that. Then I meet people and they started helping
- me out and now we got this thing going on.
-
- HR: You mean Smart Kids Into Sick Methods?
-
- SSS: Yeah, you know all thid did did dat.
-
- HR: How do you name your viruses?
-
- SSS: Well depends whats on my mind. Skism was my tag for like four
- years, so I thought it would be cool if people saw my name in
- the newspaper and all that. I got Captian Trips after reading
- The Stand, by Stephen King. 1992 was just what I named it cause
- the virus came out to be about 1945 bytes so I jusy padded it out
- to next years date. 808 was named after the TR-808, a 'drum
- machine' used in hip-hop.
-
- HR: Whats the latest projects?
-
- SSS: You know, you wrote most of the shit.
-
- HR: Tell them. The people.
-
- SSS: Well, we did SKISM 1992, which was funny, then a member of
- SKISM, who shall be nameless made 808. Now I'm just taking a
- break from viruses and computers for the summer.
-
- HR: You stopped?
-
- SSS: Your crazy, nah - It's got to wait a while, then I'll get back
- into it - when school starts again.
-
- HR: What do you think of McAffe?
-
- SSS: He's cool, what the fuck am supposed to say. He does a good
- job at spreading my name around. I really like Pat Hoffman,
- thanks for the write ups. You got to understand - these people
- make us into infamous villians. I can deal with that.
-
- HR: Do you mind them detecting your viruses?
-
- SSS: Nah, fuck it - If my shit can make it from NY to California
- without effort, it shows it works. Thats it. Thers a lot more
- where that came from. One more thing, I hate that gay bitch
- Ross Greenburg author of Flu-Shot. What
- a dick. He's just an asshole tring to sell his shit product.
- He's got a big mouth and instead of crashing his board, I'd
- like to kick his fucken ass. Where's his office? Up one 57th
- right? Lets take a walk. Just kiddin' but the guys product
- sucks and he's just a greedy asshole. I'm glad I sent a trojan
- version of his virus scanner around. Ha you dick!
-
- HR: What virus authors do you look up to?
-
- SSS: Myself - Ha Ha (laughter) Ha Ha. No, I love Whale - that was
- clever. I like Dark Avenger, the real one. Its hard to be
- original, and these guys were. Hats off you crazy fuckin'
- Bulgarian Metal-Head!
-
- HR: What about groups of virus writers?
-
- SSS: I think were the only one. Oh yeah and those Rabid people you
- told me about, yeah there just like us - people tring to make
- there mark in the world, or should I say dent in the world.
- Germans are bugging out too - Shit, they write half the shit out
- there these days. More power to them
-
- HR: What is your advise to people who want to write viruses?
-
- SSS: Get a late pass! No as I said more power to you. Just remember
- you got to have style and learn to be ORIGINAL.
-
- HR: What next from you?
-
- SSS: I don't really know. I'm waiting to hook up a few more people
- to the pack, then we'll get the thing rollin HARD. Till then
- 'A little at a time...'
-
-
- At the time this artical was finished, the Skism team was at work on
- a new virus code named Bad Brains.
-
- HR