ONE MOMENT PLEASE. . . THE SYSOP IS WAITING. PLEASE ENTER YOUR PIN: XXXX-XXXX Pause . . . MF? IS THAT YOU? Betch'ure ass. Revere? How's trix? SAME OL' SAME OL'. YOU? Trying to make a profit. Hey, we gotta talk. OUT LOUD? No whisper. OK. LET ME SET IT. <<CRYPT KEY SELECTION>> Pause . . . <<CRYPT KEY EXCHANGE>> Pause . . . <<TRANSMISSION ENCODED>> MF? Still here. GOOD. SURPRISES THE SHIT OUT OF ME EVERY TIME THIS WORKS. Me too. WHAT CAN I DO? GOT ANOTHER PRESENT? Couple of days, sure. Some doosies. WHAT'YA GOT? A graphics program that kicks the living shit out of VGA Master and Paint Man. Deadly too. HOW? Copies portions of itself into Video RAM and treats it as a TSR. Next program you load gets infected from Video RAM and spreads from there. Undetectable unless you're running debug at the same time and looking for it. Then it stealths itself into all V-RAM applications and spreads outside the O/S. TRIGGERS? I forget the exact trigger mechanism, but it gives constant parity errors. Nothing'll run. OK! LOOKIN' GOOD. Also have a few Lotus utilities, a couple of games. THE GAMES ARE GOING GREAT GUNS. WE SHOULD BE SELLING THEM IN THE STORES. How many? AS OF A WEEK AGO, MORE THAN 240,000 PACK-LADIES HAVE BEEN DOWN LOADED. THAT'S OUR BEST SELLER. Anyone sending money? SURPRISINGLY, YES. WE'RE TURNING A PROFIT. Shit. That's not what we wanted. CAN'T KEEP A GOOD PROGRAM DOWN. Yeah Yeah Yeah. Need some info. THAT'S OUR MIDDLE NAME. WHAT DO YOU NEED? You hear about the First Bank hacker? SURE! I GOT A DOZEN PEOPLE TAKING CREDIT FOR IT. You're kidding NO! IT'S A GOOD ONE. BRING A BANK TO IT'S KNEES. STOP STOCK TRADING. SEC INVESTIGATION. A LOT OF OUR FOLKS WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD. Was it us? NO WAY. Then who, really? DAMNED IF I KNOW OR CARE. Care WHAT? SINCE WHEN DO WE CARE ABOUT THE AMATEURS? Since now. Things are heating up too soon. I need to know who pulled the job. I CAN GET A LOT OF PEOPLE TO ADMIT IT, BUT I CAN'T VERIFY IT. Whoever did it is not likely to advertise it openly. We may need to pull him into the open. GOTCHA Here's my thinking. Assume the hack is just a kid. He's getting no credit and receives a shitty allowance. So, we offer a re- ward. Whoever can prove that they are the one's who broke into First Bank, we'll send them a new 386. Whatever, use your imagi- nation. THINK HE'LL BITE? If it's a pro, no. But this doesn't ring of a pro. The news- papers know too much. AND IF WE FIND HIM? Just get me his number and shipping address. Make sure he gets the computer too. OK BOSS. ANYTHING ELSE? Keep up the good work. Oh, yeah. I need the estimates. NO PROBLEM. THEY LOOK GREAT. IN JUST OVER 2 YEARS, WE HAVE GIVEN AWAY OVER 1,300,000 INFECTED PROGRAMS AND NONE HAVE GONE OFF YET. ACCORDING TO PLAN. Love it. Peace. BYE, YOU MF. <<<<<<CONNECTION TERMINATED>>>>>>