the crazynation-virus ------------------------- some ppl emailed us, that the latest version of the intro-liberator had a virus unfortuantely it does really LOOK like that - but the virus is not in the IL it's in titaniks latest cracks yes you hear right, titanik infected his patches and abused a security hole in intro liberator but instead to just fuck with us he is fucking all people using intro liberator by infecting and screwing up their systems and this is unbelievable lame and irresponsible for someone who was (yes, he WAS) a shining figure in the scene, now all i can say is that he must be one of the biggest assholes i have encountered in the coding scene in years, he is a disgrace first here is what actually this thing is all about anyways one of his protections consist of a table with pairs of addresses and values to decode the intro correct, a routine has to copy each value into the position of the address-part of each pair e.g [1,"FACE"],[0," BAD] produces " BADFACE" at position 0 in the decryption-buffer since i'm a real lazy guy and honestly never thought about the possibillity to abuse this patching, i didn't include a simple if-statement to ensure that the addresses never point out of my decryption-buffer :( that's a real bug and titanik's hole to hack into the IL he included a table, which writes executable (PC) code into the buffer and then puts the address of the buffer onto the stack (since he can't modify the code itsels) when IL stops, execution automatically continues at the actual address on the stack and that's - you've guessed it already - in the buffer with the code this code saves an exe (called badface.exe) and executes it then badface.exe extracts the Win95/Libertine-virus from the rom and saves it as c:\mylene.exe i have to admit, that this was a nice move in our encryption/decryption-competition but even there are plenty possibillities of using this bug he decided to spread a virus it seems that the existence of the il has hit him very hard since he reacted that sick and i can only repeat in my opinion this is FUCKING LAME yes - he is the best cracker in the scene, but if you really understand or even support his move then you must be an idiot if he can't improve his protection he shouldn't piss on other ppl who are just curious to learn something they don't know - it's not their fault and he is absolutely not the fucking right to screw up the systems of other freaks some smart ppl may think, that this story is not true for those i included a programm (getvir.exe) which fetches the code out of the cracked C&C-USA-rom (.v64), the source and the resulting getvir.dat + badface.exe since badface.exe is packed with pklite, i also included the decompressed file (depacked.exe) don't start badface.exe as long as you don't have a virus-protection running, which can intercept the execution of the virus! you may rename the rom to prevent the extraction of the virus and still see the msg about the deletion of win.com i hope not to much ppl sufferd from titaniks way of "punishment!?" - go and thank HIM BADFACE - freedom 0f information PS: DEADBABE RULEZ??? No way - first grow up!