Has David Lipman been providing malware to known malware criminals?

[yar]

4Q 4Q

On 24 Mar 2007 15:26:38 -0700, "4Q" <paul_zest@hushmail.com> wrote:

>I asked David Lipman in a round about way
>if he had been providing malware to known
>organized criminals. He avoided giving
>a straight answer to a question I
>possed by asking me to leave him out of
>investigations into people spreading
>malware to known malicious malware
>spreaders *laughably calling themselves
>"peers"*
>
>So if Lipman would like to answer the
>question I put to him in. (URL follows)
>
>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...69da3fcf54749c
>
>with a denial that he hasn't been sending
>malware... Something along the lines of
>"No I haven't..."
>
>Interestingly Lipman's website appears
>to have been taken offline all of a
>sudden! And replaced with
>"Unavailable.html", very strange.
>
>
>4Q
>http://fourq.host.sk/INFO/

[What's in a Name?]

4Q aka paul_zest@hushmail.com in message
<1174775198.015247.75350@e1g2000hsg.googlegroups.c om>
alt.comp.anti-virus on 3/24/2007 at 6:26:38 PM after much thought,came
up with this jewel:

> investigations into people spreading
> malware to known malicious malware
> spreaders *laughably calling themselves
> "peers"*

I'll play along.....

How can one create a good removal tool without the thing your trying to
remove?

I have sent live samples to Dustin.

Investigate away!

(mind if I lead?)
sung to the tune of "skating away"-jethro tull

max
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[Dustin Cook]

On Mar 26, 7:28 am, "What's in a Name?" <maxwach...@nomail.afraid.org>
wrote:
> 4Q aka paul_z...@hushmail.com in message
> <1174775198.015247.75...@e1g2000hsg.googlegroups.c om>
> alt.comp.anti-virus on 3/24/2007 at 6:26:38 PM after much thought,came
> up with this jewel:
>
> > investigations into people spreading
> > malware to known malicious malware
> > spreaders *laughably calling themselves
> > "peers"*
>
> I'll play along.....
>
> How can one create a good removal tool without the thing your trying to
> remove?
>
> I have sent live samples to Dustin.
>
> Investigate away!

LoL. Yes, You have saved me time by sending them so I didn't have to
browse with IE in a controlled environment and manually extract them.
(thanks you!)

Also, a big thanks for pointing out what should be obvious...
" How can one create a good removal tool without the thing your
trying to
remove?" - max alt.comp.virus

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Dustin Cook
http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk