4Q wrote:
> 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).

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The spell checked version of this
story will be over on the Dustin Cook
biography page.


4Q
http://fourq.host.sk/INFO/





>
> 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.
>
>
> You can follow more of these stories
> over on.
>
> http://fourq.host.sk/chars/Dustin_Cook/
>
>
> 4Q (Student of VX philosophy)