Dustin has FORGOTTEN I have a lot of _private_ dirt on him. I
never said I would keep it CONFIDENTIAL and I am a man of my
word. :)
This is just a sample............
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On 23 Oct 2007 at 7:52,
Boater...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi Dustin!
>
> In a message dated 22/10/2007 18:45:14 GMT Daylight Time,
>
bughunte...@gmail.com writes:
>
> I don't have a commercial website. I'm a little
> consultation business. I run it out of my home currently.
> :) I was formally employed by a local computer shop here,
> but I quit several months ago after 10 years, I'd had
> enough. I'll do it for myself now. lol. Can you remind he
> where 'here' is Dustin? Somewhere warm and sunny? (and
> where there are hopefully no fires! Looks nasty in
> California right now ).
Kingsport, Tennessee USA. I'm in the yellow pages here.
*grin*
> Does your mum (mom!) live somewhere nearby? I hope you
> make a fuss of her from time-to-time!
She lives upstairs, actually.
> You sound like a fellow Christian, Dustin! I do understand
> where you are coming from on this, but consider how many
> other people you could help, in all sorts of ways, if you
> had 'surplus' income - gained from a product which you
> have developed and which is designed to help PC users. I
> get much pleasure in helping others in any way I can. Just
> a thought.
I'm not religious Dave. I have nothing against those who are,
so long as they practice what they preach. :) When they do
not, I find them in distaste.
I fully intend to help the local community, and hopefully
BugHunter will continue to be useful for the persons who call
me for computer assistance. That's where I make my money. I'm
not a greedy fellow as I said previously. BugHunter itself is
free, but if someone calls me to come to there home to fix
something, I charge for it. So, if BugHunter can occasionally
get me a new client or two, it sorta earns money for me in
it's own right.
>I do not consider it a feeble attempt
> at all. You can be justifiably proud of yourself!
I'm not trying to brag when I say this, but the viruses I
wrote were very malicious and indeed spread far around the
globe. I will not be able to undue all of that damage which I
intentionally at a less stable point in my life caused, so to
me, no matter what I do to BugHunter, it's always going to be
feeble in comparison. I am not proud of the harm I caused,
even tho I used to say I enjoyed doing it. I was playing a
part most of the time.
>You given me the impression of being a reformed
> character, Dustin!
I would like to think so, but I'm sure I have much more
reforming/growing up to do yet.
> LoL- Hope all goes well in your destruction! :) I
> certainly hadn't realised how simple it was to replace the
> RAM in that Laptop! I'll have to buy a set of tiny PC tools
> so that I can play more with two old IBM Thinkpad laptops
> I have! The flattening and reinstallation of Windows was
> really easy with the CD's which came with the machine when
> new.
The right tools and the right knowledge takes the scare out
of the scenario. IE: you really can install parts without
screwing something up. :)
> Steve has become a friend. He builds and maintains
> computers for local businesses/organisations and I'm sure
> he is highly competent (ex-Army engineer). He will 'fix'
> any problem, but he hasn't spent much time at all in
> investigating where all the SPAM and Malware comes from. We
> had an interesting discussion! He has a web site, here:
> _
http://www.sidsoft.co.uk/_ (
http://www.sidsoft.co.uk/) in
> case you are interested.
He sounds like a very knowledgable individual. I will check
his site in the near future.
> That is very interesting. Are you able to help me
> understand how it can be done? (No - I don't want to do it
> myself, in case of doubt! <g>)
I can try....
> However, I have a strong suspicion that on the Annexcafe
> U2U newsgroup, where there are some very clever 'helpers',
> I have, indeed, been redirected to a 'spoof' URL and become
> 'infected'.
Well, the thing is, in order for it to work one has to craft
very specific html code, AND the user has to be using a
browser that still suffers from such an exploit and/or simply
doesn't show the real url should you click the link.
If the status bar is turned off in IE6 and older versions of
Mozilla FireFox, the trick can be done with standard html
code.
> At the outset, I had hoped you would help me confirm this
> by actually 'registering' with Annexcafe, then join
> one/both of the U2U groups and determine if my supposition
> is correct. Human nature being what it is, I'd bet that
> most people visiting there - with problems to be solved -
> wouldn't think twice before clicking on a link - imagine
> the fun a bad guy could have there! Who would ever
> suspect? Well - I did!
I really don't have time for ghost hunting. If you suspected
and/or had valid links for me to follow which offered
downloads of malicious software, I'd be interested in taking
a closer look. For the purposes of updating BugHunter to deal
with it. I am not however a hacker for hire. :) I don't do
malicious/survelience things anymore.
> I gather that you've now a notion that I'm a 'plonker' and
> have dismissed the fact that I have, literally, spent many
> hundreds of
A plonker no, a slightly annoying individual yes. :) I
realize where it comes from tho. You simply don't know some
things and you wish to learn, and I see no harm in that. If
you would just sit back and relax, and read.. do lots of
reading before you come to conspiracy type conclusions and
assume this or that site is upto no goodm you'd find things
make more sense, and people wouldn't be so quick to dismiss
you.
> hours on trying to pinpoint the 'bad guys'. Perhaps you
> will consider just one small item. Troll_Lady (Li) asked
> you to 'Ping' her on the MS Security group as she couldn't
> deal with matters on the MS Virus newsgroup. She'd been
> posting there already - it doesn't make sense, not to me
> anyway! Why might she have asked you to do that?
I have no idea why she asked me to bring the discussion to
another newsgroup. Perhaps her question/my responses were
more appropriate there, I don't know... I don't however
think it's some form of conspiracy. :)
> Believe me Dustin, something is amiss with
> Annex/Annexcafe. I'd still like you to help me find out
> exactly what. Over to you!
Something could very well be wrong I suppose with that site,
but as I said previously, I do not do recon missions for
people I don't know because they suspect something might be
wrong... I have attempted to fill out an account on one site
you invited me too, I haven't been able to complete the
requirements I suppose, my account still doesn't work.. LoL.
Anyways, If you have a specific url pointing to a potentially
malicious site/link/piece of software, I'm all ears.
I don't mean any offense to you sir when i express lack of
interest in examining those sites you have provided, I have
explained this to my Aunt and various family members who are
somewhat new to computers as well. I am reformed, retired
vxer. I will not do those things and I won't use the skills I
have for hunting people or examining private sites. Unless
said sites have a url for public access pointing to something
malicious.
--
Dustin Cook
Author of BugHunter - MalWare Removal Tool -
v2.2c
Email.:bughunte...@gmail.com Web...:
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