Episode 1:

Dustin Cook works in a little PC repair
shop in Tennessee. He's the odd job guy
you see at the back of the shop wearing
overalls, dusting old circuit boards,
formatting disks and changing fuses.
Sometimes they even let him write 10
line bat scripts (provided they're not
too complex for his limited ability).

The customers who come to the little
PC repair shop, drop their personal
computers off complete with private
files, banking/credit card details,
data etc. Handing their precious
information over to a trusted 3rd party,
namely the owner of the business. His
job is to fix up their system and to
remove virus, trojans, general malware.
Little do they know that the guy in the
background with sweeping up, mopping
the floor etc is the very person they
have come escape from, the ****er that's
putting the **** into their belongings
in the first place.

Over the years Dustin has been
responsible for getting quiet a number
of the simple overwriter, prepender
virus into the wild. Yeah, unlike most
of the virus in the AV databases that
have only been created as an academic
exercise or proof of concept these
very basic creations of his are the
ones that are proactively forced into
the wild... And he's ****ing proud of
his acheivement (if you can call it that)
You will often hear the mop guy Dustin bragging on Usenet or in IRC
channels
about how successful his prependers and
overwriters really were. He can even
point you to articles on news sites
mentioning his malicious crap as he
sniggers away to himself from his mum's
basement.

It makes you wonder if these customers
would be impressed if they knew the truth
about spending money on fixing up their
computers infested with the very stuff
created by the person supposedly helping
them, whilst laughing behind their backs. Would they think twice about
handing over
such a personal item as a PC with so much
private information? After all they could
(resonably expect to) find the "fixed"
computer has got even more dangerous
backdoor Trojan technology on it than when it first went into the
shop.


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