> Name: *-Zine (Asterix)

> Origin: MGL & Flush / Slovakia

> 1 - April 1997 | 2 - December 1999

> Contents: A virus oriented zine that contains several viruses and source codes, several interviews with well known VX figures as well as many articles. According to the editorial the zine is meant as a H/P/A/V oriented zine but the first issue is VX only oriented. The graphic user interface and layout are very well done and user friendly. This zine sets a standard on how things can be done with a some dedicated effort and know how. Issue #2 covered all virus related topics (interviews, tutorials, essays and virus code), was written using HTML and, just like issue #1, looked very professional. An online version of both can be found here [April 2000]].

> Name: 29A

> Origin: 29A / Spain

> 1 - December 1996 | 2 - February 1998 | 3 - January 1999
> 4 - March 2000 |  |

> Contents: These virus oriented zines contain several viruses and source codes as well as tutorials. A mouse operated VGA/ANSI browser was included with #1 while the browser of #2 initially starts with a very nice looking intro/demo. All files are available as ASCII and binary files. Issue #4 consists of an impressive collection of articles, tutorials, interviews, source codes and binaries. Viruses ranging from platforms from DOS to Windows 2000 are included.

> Name: 40Hex

> Origin: Phalcon-Skism / USA

> 1 - June 1991 | 2 - July 1991 | 3 - October 1991
> 4 - December 1991 | 5 - February 1992 | 6 - April 1992
> 7 - June 1992 | 8 - July 1992 | 9 - December 1992
> 10 - March 1993 | 11 - June 1993 | 12 - December 1993
> 13 - May 1994 | 14 - April 1995 |

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, viral tricks, interviews. The most well-known underground viral magazine. Use to be available in electronic and hard-copy format.

> Name: Accel Virus Lab

> Origin: Dr Joder / Unknown

> 1 - December 1998

> Contents: Very simple (ascii) newsletter with subjects ranging from scene information to virus reviews.

> Name: Anaconda

> Origin: Viper / USA

> 1 - January 1992

> Contents: Short .TXT file claiming to be Viper's first electronic magazine. Topics range from virus and trojan programming to editorial discussions.

> Name: ARCV Newsletter

> Origin: ARCV / United Kingdom

> 1 - August 1992

> Contents: Electronic magazine released by ARCV with editorial from Apache Warrior.

> Name: Amateur Virus Creation Research Group Journal

> Origin: AVCR / USA

> Volume 1 Issue 1 - December 1994 | Volume 1 Issue 2 - February 1995

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, tricks and techniques. Another addition to this part of the virus world the AVCR Journal started out as an ambitious project, but no new issues have been released since February 1995.

> Name: BadByte

> Origin: BHA / Unknown

> 1 - August 1999 | 2 - December 1999 | 3 - February 2000

> Contents: Simple, generic ASCII newsletter with several source codes. Created by a hacking oriented group.

> Name: Censor

> Origin: Rabid / International

> 1 - November 1991

> Contents: First and only E-Zine by Rabid. It is operated by a DOS GUI shell and has several articles on Rabid's viruses and of course some ranting and raving against popular AV personalities.

> Name: Chaos AD

> Origin: DVC / Russia

> 1 - May 1996 | 2 - Summer 1996 | 3 - April 1997

> Contents: Released with Infected Voice #9, #10 & #11 this Russian product contained the sources to several viruses and the Amber polymorphic engine. It also contained a polymorphic BAT file infector by Reminder.

> Name: Chiba City Times

> Origin: Firecracker / USA

> 1 - April 1994 | 2 - December 1994 | 3 - March 1995

> Contents: Electronic virus newspaper from the Sysop of Chiba City Times, Firecracker (former NuKE). Issue 1 contained virus sources and editorials while issue 2 featured a 2Mb demo by Wolfee J. and a copy of Azrael's NRLG. Issue 3 featured among other things Ratboy's first "tutorial" and a copy of Virogen's VICE v0.4B.

> Name: Codebreakers

> Origin: Codebreakers / International

> 1 - October 1997 | 2 - December 1997 | 3- March 1998
> 4 - August 1998 | 5 - June 1999 |

> Contents: Virus oriented zine/tutorial aimed at teaching others how to create viruses. Comes with TASM/TLINK. Following the group's interests issue #3 also contained hacking oriented material. Issue #4 comes with a sophisticated Windows install program and a shell that includes mouse support and Midi sound. This same issue is loaded with up-to-date virus oriented articles and source codes among which the original source codes to the Windows 95 CIH viruses and the first Java virus. Issue #5 appeared after the Melissa / Source Of Kaos / Codebreaker site shutdown and centers around boot sector virus infections.

> Name: CPI Newsletter

> Origin: Doctor Dissector / USA

> 1 - June 1989 | 2 - July 1989

> Contents: Electronic newsletter released by Doctor Dissector of C.P.I. (Corrupted Programming International).

> Name: Creatures

> Origin: Russia

> 1 - March 1999 | 2 - March 1999 | 3 - May 1999
> 4 - June 1999 | 5 - June 1999 | 6 - August 1999
> 7 - November 1999 | 8 - April 2000 |

> Contents: Russian (cyrillic) computer virus newsletter with unknown viral content.

> Name: Crypt Newsletter

> Origin: Crypt / USA

> 1- August 1992 | 2- August 1992 | 3- August 1992
> 4- August 1992 | 5 - September 1992 | 6 - October 1992
> 7 - October 1992 | 8 - October 1992 | 9 - November 1992
> 10 - December 1992 | 11 - December 1992 | 12 - January 1993
> 13 - February 1993 | 14 - April 1993 | 15 - May 1993
> 16 - June 1993 | 17 - August 1993 | 18 - September 1993
> 19 - October 1993 | 20 - November 1993 | 21 - December 1993
> 22 - February 1994 | 23 - March 1994 | 24 - April 1994
> 25 - May 1994 | 26 - July 1994 | 27 - September 1994
> 28 - November 1994 | 29 - January 1995 | 30 - April 1995
> 31 - May 1995 | 32 - July 1995 | 33 - September 1995
> 34 - November 1995 | 35 - February 1996 | 36 - March 1996
> 37 - June 1996 | 38 - August 1996 | 39 - October 1996
> 40 - January 1997 | 41 - March 1997 | 42 - May 1997
> 43 - July 1997 | 44 - September 1997 | 45 - November 1997
> 46 - January 1998 | 47 - March 1997 | 48 - May 1998
> 49 - not released? | 50 - August 1998 | 51 - October 1998
> 52 - January 1999 | 53 - March 1999 | 54 - April 1999
> 55 - June 1999 | 56 - August 1999 | 57 - October 1999
> 58 - November 1999 | 59 - January 2000 | 60 -June 2000

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, tricks and techniques. Editor is Urnst Kouch which is the handle of George D. Smith who in 1994 published the book "The Virus Creations Labs", an inside look at the virus scene. As of issue 24 the newsletter does not contain any viral material anymore. Issue 23 exists in a "viral" and a "non-viral" edition. Well known virus writers as Kohntark, Nikademus and Stormbringer contributed to the newsletter. This newsletter slowly drifted away from computer viruses as it's main subject, it now contains material about computer security in general and is just of minor interest for those looking for computer virus specific news.

> Name: CVC/CVL Magazine

> Origin: CVC / Korea

> 1 - June 1997 | 2 - September 1997 | 3 - March 1998
> 4 - May 1998 |  |

> Contents: This e-zine contains several viruses, source codes and virus related articles. The e-zine is written in the Korean language. Some articles and sources were 'borrowed' from other e-zines. Also included in issue #1 are two versions of the Mini Polymorphic Engine by Kiminwoo. #3 of the zine is released by under the CVL name.

> Name: Da Holocaust Chronical's

> Origin: Computa GangstaZ / Unknown

> 1 - December 1996

> Contents: This e-zine contains several viruses and source codes although is has articles on non virus issues.

> Name: DDT Magazine

> Origin: DDT / Spain

> 1 - May 1999

> Contents: This is the long awaited first issue of the e-zine by DDT Virus Studios. It contains several interviews, many tutorials and viruses.

> See: DDT: another group dies with its 1st issue.

> Name: The Diabolical Judges Magazine

> Origin: The Diabolical Judges / Unknown

> 1 - January 1998

> Contents: This e-zine does not pretend to be something new for the VX-scene. It is basically a collection of old and well known tutorials taken from other E-zines.

> Name: DIE Magazine

> Origin: ASM / International

> 1 - July 1999

> Contents: A virus oriented zine that contains several viruses and source codes. Contains "secret area".

> Name: Divide By Zero Zine

> Origin: Divide By Zero / Russia

> 1 - 1996-1997

> Contents: No apparent viral content but probably group zine of Divide By Zero.

> Name: Duke's Virus Labs

> Origin: SMF

> 1 - August 1998 | 2 - November 1998 | 3 - December 1998
> 4 - February 1999 | 5 - March 1999 | 6 - April 1999
> 7 - July 1999 | 8 - August 1999 | 9 - December 1999
> 10 - July 2000 |  |

> Contents: This electronic magazine released by a Russian coding group consists of source codes and binaries of viruses, several tutorials, several virus creation kits (batch, macro, HLL) and some polymorphic engines. Issue #2 exists both in a ANSI and a HTML format. Some guest authors for DVL later gravitated to Top Device, an independent online VX e-zine originating from the Russian VX scene.

> Name: Evolution

> Origin: YAM

> 1 - June 1992 | 2 - November 1992 | 3 - February 1993

> Contents: Electronic magazine released by YAM featuring ready made viruses, source codes, techniques and articles.

> Name: FCF Zine

> Origin: FCF

> 1 - March 2000

> Contents: HTML (frame/JS) based zine with cracking, hacking and virus content. Several virus writing tutorials, assembler tutorials, virus binaries and source codes are included. The zines is written in the Hungarian language. The online version can be found here [April 2000].

> Name: Final Chaos

> Origin: UCSI

> 1 - January 2000

> Contents: Electronic magazine released with a DOS based viewer. It consists of a collection of interviews, tutorials, essays, binary samples and source codes ranging from Win32 viruses, via HTML/script viruses to macro viruses.

> Name: G9N

> Origin: The Spy / Argentina

> 1 - May 2000

> Contents: ASCII based magazine with several articles, source codes, binaries and utilities that were available throughout the scene around the time the zine was released. It also contains The Spy's Vampirism Toolkit (TSVT) by the zine's editor.

> Name: God@rky's Virus Heaven Newsletter

> Origin: God@rky / USA

> 1 - November 1996 | 2 - December 1996 | 3 - ? 1997

> Contents: From the editor: "This newsletter has little purpose other than to keep you all aware of what is going on, and to give you someplace else to turn as the presence of Vx magazines continues to dwindle." "This is just another medium for you to recieve [sic] info on what is going on in the Vx world, and maybe learn something if I decide to type something worth reading."
> The zine was discontinued after God@rky stopped actively participating in the VX world.

> Name: HEX-files

> Origin: Putoksa Kawayan / Philippines

> 1 - December 1997 | 2 - March 1998 | 3 - June 1998
> 4 - November 1998 |  |

> Contents: Articles, viral sources and disassemblies specifically focused on the Filipino virus scene.

> From the zine's intro:

> > To give HEX-FILES a direction and purpose, I formulated the following objectives:

> > 1. To present virii that originated from the Philippines, both confirmed and widely believed to be of Philippine origin. From hereon, these virii are collectively referred to as PhVx;

> > 2. To serve as a forum for Filipino virus authors to present their work;

> > 3. To maintain a list of PhVx; and

> > 4. To encourage and promote standardization of names used for PhVx.

> Name: Holokaust Zine

> Origin: Holokaust Henky / Spain

> 1 (Beta) - December 1999

> Contents: Collection of copies of articles from several well known zines and some well known source codes. From the creator of EMPD.

> Name: Immortal EAS Virus Magazine

> Origin: Immortal EAS / The Netherlands

> 95.1 - June 1995

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, viral tricks.

> Name: Infected Moscow

> Origin: SG(WW) / Russian

> 1 - January 1997

> Contents: After some relocating of the group this is SG(WW)'s first new ezine. It continues on the same foot as Infected Voice and is written in Russian.

> Name: Infected Voice

> Origin: SG(WW) / Russian

> Russian Issues:

> 1 - September 1994 | 2 - October 1994 | 3 - December 1994
> 4 - January 1995 | 5 - February 1995 | 6 - April 1995
> 7 - July 1995 | 8 - December 1995 | 9 (Moscow) - April 1996
> 9 (Kiev) - May 1996 | 10 - November 1996 | 11 - May 1997
> 12 - May 1998 | 13 - unknown | 14 - unknown
> 15 - December 1999 |  |

> English Issues:

> 1 - June 1996 | 2 - September 1997

> Contents: E-zines consisting of among other things virus oriented assembly programming techniques, virus source codes and a group application form. Issue #1 in the English language is a compilation of seven of the Russian issues while issue #2 in the English language is a compilation of Russian issues #8 thru #11. For a while Infected Voice could be found on the WWW. Issues 13 and 14 were released as 'online' versions. In December 1999 Issue #15 was apparently released in paper form, an electronic version has not been seen.

> Name: Infectious Disease Magazine

> Origin: Virulent Graffiti / USA

> 1 - July 1992 | 2 - December 1992 | 3 - March 1993

> Contents: Electronic magazine released by Virulent Graffiti with Attitude Adjuster doing the main editing. Features are
> disassemblies, techniques, source codes reviews and articles.

> Name: Insane Reality Magazine

> Origin: Immortal Riot / Sweden

> 1 - July 1993 | 2 - November 1993 | 3 - January 1994
> 4 - April 1994 | 5 - July 1994 | 6 - November 1994
> 7 - December 1995 | 8 - December 1996 |

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, interviews. As of #8 Insane Reality is a product of IR/G due to a merger of Genesis and Immortal Riot. Issue #8 had the first TSR Windows 95 virus.

> Name: Janus

> Origin: JVS / International

> 1 - November 1998

> Contents: The very simple (ascii) first zine of this now disbanded group contains several source codes, a small tutorial and an interview with Cyberyoda.

> Name: Kefrens Zine

> Origin: Kefrens / Germany

> 1 - July 2000(*)

> Contents: This ASCII based zine with a Windows viewer contains several interviews, source codes, tutorials and essays. (*)While issue #1 was released as an afterhought after the Kefrens group ceased to exist the majority of the files were generated late 1999.

> Name: Kollywabbles Virus Newsletter

> Origin: Kollywabble / USA

> 1 - January 1996 | 2 - January 1996 | 3 - January 1996

> Contents: Very simple (ascii) newsletter with subjects ranging from AV to some source codes.

> Name: Lamers Must Die

> Origin: SPS / Russia

> 1 - June 1997 | 2 - June 1998 | 3 - January 1999

> Contents: Very simple (ascii) newsletter from Russia with limited viral content.

> Name: LineZer0 Network Magazine

> Origin: LineZer0 / Austria

> 1 - July 1999 | 2 - July 2000

> Contents: Zines with cracking and hacking information that contain several (mainly macro) viruses and source codes. Issue #1 was released in a DOS and a Windows version. Issue #2 uses a RTF viewer for it's RTF data files and contains cracking and viral information (many sources and tutorials) and also has several interviews with people from the scene. It also signals the end of the viral part of the LineZero group. The viewers for both issues have some very nice (graphical, special effects) features.

> Name: Lucky Vir Magazine

> Origin: Lucky Virus Group / Germany

> 1 - Unknown 1997

> Contents: Unoriginal collection of hacks/copies of articles from the 29A #1 zine this was released during a 1997 attempt to create a German virus group. Some macro viruses from the author are known.

> Name: Matrix Zine

> Origin: Matrix / Russia

> 1 - April 2000 | 2 - August 2000

> Contents: Release 1 is a HTML based e-zine that contains interviews, several tutorials/articles, tools and viruses (binary and source). Release 2 consists of ASCII text files with a 32 bit reader and it also contains interviews, several tutorials/articles, tools and viruses (binary and source).

> Name: Metaphase Magazine

> Origin: Metaphase VX Team / International

> 1 - November 1998 | 2 - August 2000

> Contents: Both zines of the Metaphase VX Team were released in the Windows HLP format and contain the source codes to several viruses of all kinds (batch, VBA, HLL and ASM) and several virus creation kits. They also has several interviews and some basic tutorials.

> Name: Minotauro Magazine

> Origin: Digital Anarchy / Argentina

> 1 - May 1994 | 2 - July 1994 | 3 - August 1994
> 4 - October 1994 | 5 - November 1994 | 6 - December 1994
> 7 - May 1995 | 8 - October 1995 | 9 - May1996
> 10 - November 1996 | 11 - April 1997 |

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, viral tricks. The first 3 issues are available in English translations.

> Name: Moon Bug

> Origin: TulaAnti&ViralClub / Russia

> 1 - September 1996 | 2 - May 1997 | 3 - September 1997
> 4 - December 1997 | 5 - May 1998 | 6 - June 1998
> 7 - August 1998 | 8 - November 1998 | 9 - January 1999
> 10 - May 1999 | 11 - October 1999 |

> Contents: Among other subjects this magazine in the Russian language has several viral articles, sources and compiled viruses. While Moon Bug died a quiet death late 1999 authors later gravitated to Top Device, an independent online VX e-zine originating from the Russian VX scene.

> Name: Mors Ultima Ratio

> Origin: Hail and Kill / Spain

> 1 - June 1998

> Contents: Small (ASCII) zine covering some viral subjects and with the source code to one virus by the group. The zine is in Spanish.

> Name: Nemesis

> Origin: Nemesis / Unknown

> 1 - December 1995

> Contents: E-zine released by a "lone" virus writer looking to establish himself in the VX-scene. What follows is a piece of his intro:

> " I don't claim to be some sort of virus god. In fact, I'm just a beginner with big ideas. I will never say something like "I'm working on a multipartite, block moving, mutating EXE/COM/DLL/OVR/SYS/BAT/OBJ/BIN/GOD infector" since I probably never will write such a thing. You may see some simple memory resident and runtime virii with alot of simple avoidance techniques but nothing so grand as what is found in the VLAD or 40HEX magazines."

> Name: NuKE Info Journal

> Origin: NuKE / USA

> 1 - October 1991 | 2 - February 1992 | 3 - May 1992
> 4 - August 1992 | 5 - March 1993 | 6 - May 1993
> 7 - August 1993 | 8 - June 1994 |

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, viral tricks, interviews. Issues 9 thru 11 were released by Aristotle after his rift with NuKE, therefore not considered as true Nuke Info Journals.

> Name: PFlorik

> Origin: SoftProject / Italy

> 1 - December 1997 | 2 - March 1998

> Contents: Viral (ASCII) newsletter containing some source codes and some general VX topics. Both came with virus code samples..

> Name: PlasmaMag

> Origin: Dark Conspiracy / International

> 1 - April 1996 | 2 - September 1996

> Contents: E-zines consisting mostly of virus source codes and debug scripts of viruses released by this new virus writing group. The magazine uses a with ANSI-art decorated user interface and looks well made. The second issue contained the first Macro Virus Development Kit.

> Name: Pinoy Virus Writers Magazine

> Origin: PVW / Philippines

> 1 - March 1998 | 2 - July 1998 | 3 - August 1998
> 4 - December 1998 | 5 - April 1999 |

> Contents: Generic first try at an electronic virus magazine released by the Pinoy Virus Writers. Subsequent issues contain more of the same, specifically about the Philipino virus scene.

> Name: Ren Zine

> Origin: Renegade / Italy

> 1 - September 1998 | 2 - November 1998 | 3 - September 1999

> Contents: Electronic magazine (Italian) released by Renegade. This zine is written in Italian and HTML and needs an external HTML viewer.

> Name: Resi Duo

> Origin: Cordoba / Argentina

> 1 - November 1995

> Contents: Electronic magazine (Spanish) released by Code Rebel and Andromeda from Cordoba Argentina. The magazine uses a with ANSI-art decorated user interface and a generic virus generator is included. The zine is the successor of the Sentinel Anarchist zine by the same people.

> Name: Revelation

> Origin: The Trinity

> 1 - April 1994

> Contents: Electronic magazine released by The Trinity. Features aretechniques, source codes reviews and articles.

> Name: RSA Magazine

> Origin: RSA / Ukraine

> 1 - June 1997

> Contents: One of the examples of better user interfaces, this zine has a professional Windows interface. The first release contains several viruses and several polymorphic engines.

> Name: Russian Virus Magazine

> Origin: RVM / Russia

> 1 - January 1998 | 1 Up. - January 1998 | 2 - January 1998

> Contents: Initially available thru WWW issue 1 of this zine contains several polymorphic/mutation engines (ZCME, PE), several new viral techniques and some anti-anti-virus tricks. Subsequent issues contained techniques specifically aimed at defeating Russian AV software.

> Name: Russian Virus Review

> Origin: Duke / Russia

> 1 - September 1999 | 2 - July 2000

> Contents: A HTML newsletter (Russian) by Duke of SMF that contains little VX material but with VX news and information

> Name: Sentinel Anarchist

> Origin: Cordoba / Argentina

> 1 - June 1995 | 2 - June 1995

> Contents: Electronic magazine (Spanish) released by Code Rebel and Andromeda from Cordoba Argentina. The magazine uses a with ANSI-art decorated user interface. The zine is the predecessor of the Resi Duo zine by the same people.

> Name: Shadow Dancer Zine

> Origin: Shadow Dancer / Indonesia

> 1 - March 2000

> Contents: ASCII based electronic zine largely written using the Malay (Indonesian) language. Comes with several generic viruses.

> Name: ShadowVX Zine

> Origin: ShadowVX

> 1 - March 2000

> Contents: HTML based electronic zine with emphasis on computer viruses but with some hacking related material. Comes with two VBS script virus sources.

> Name: SLAM

> Origin: SLAM / International

> | Special - January 1997 |
> 1 - January 1997 | 2 - May 1997 | 3 - July 1997
> 4 - May 1998 |  |

> Contents: Zines initially consisting of a lot of macro virus material, including the source code to Nightmare Joker's Word Macro Virus generator Demolition Kit but in later issues code ans sources of more "regular" (ASM etc.) viruses were released. Issue #3 included Lord of Navan's Pascal virus generator Lord Of Navan's Invasion Generator (LONIG)

> Name: Social Distortion

> Origin: Misdirected Youth / Russia

> 1 - October 1999

> Contents: An ASCII zine (Russian) with some VX related articles, source codes and debug scripts.

> Name: Source Of Kaos

> Origin: Armand / USA

> 1 - May 1996 | 2 - January 1997 | 3 - June 1997

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, viral tools, collection info.

> Name: The Source

> Origin: Trinity / USA

> 0 - June 1994

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, viral tricks, hacking phreaking.

> Name: Technological Illusions Magazine

> Origin: Technological Illusions / International

> 1 - March 1999

> Contents: Many articles, tutorials, interviews, viral sources and viral tricks in this ASCII based magazine. Nice first issue with a lot of information.

> Name: Top Device

> Origin: Russia

> 1 - June 1997 | 2 - December 1997 | 3 - March 2000
> 4 - April 2000 | 5 - May 2000 | 6 - June 2000
> 7 - July 2000 |  |

> Contents: Originally a zine with this name started out as a hacker oriented zine (Issue 1 and 2) from the Digital Information Pirates Group (DIPG) but with the development of the Top Device website [April 2000] a VX oriented 'online' zine was started and the monthly archived zine is downloadable as such. Many well known personalities of the Russian VX scene contribute to the zine with tutorials, articles, source codes and binaries.

> Editor's note:

> " PEOPLE TAKES PART AT THE PROJECT

> It hasn't been a long time since the russian VX scene started a new and interesting project - Top Device, an on-line e-zine about viruses and virmakers. The first and second issues of Top Device were dedicated to phreaking and hacking skills mostly, but the On-line issue changed this direction to that of viruses. The editors group consists of - meza (new dude on the vx scene) and Yanush Milovski (ex-DRuG, one of the authors of Top Device and MooNBuG) Also taking part in the project are Deviator (Hazard, one of the authors of DVL), one of the best russian coders, SMT (SMF, DVL e-zine), a young but the very talented coder Mongoose (Misdirected Youth, editor of the Social Distortion e-zine, one of the authors of MooNBuG), the best russian coder Z0mbie (ex-29A) and a lot of other cool coderz from the Ex-USSR. The editors of others russian VX e-zines are giving us their support.

> WHY DID WE DECIDE TO MAKE THIS E-ZINE?

> In the ex-USSR VX scene there is a paradoxical situation: between about twenty active virmakers there are three russian VX e-zines. I don't want to say anything bad about these e-zines, but there are not enough virmakers to make three interesting e-zines. And each e-zine is less interesting than common ones. "Top Device" is our attempt to unite the virmakers that live in the huge land mass of the ex-USSR and create a real Russian VX Scene (and up russian virmaking to a higher level). The second reason (why we decided to make TopDevice) - we want to find new, young and talented coders and show them that writing viruses is really cool and interesting. A lot of dudes, who have potential in virmaking don't know how interesting it is. And our e-zine is also playing a popularization role. Why is it important? Well, it is very easy to understand - new people - new ideas, which you get, we hope, from our e-zine. Real virmaking is elite work, but every man who has enough information can enter into to this elite circle. For that reason, this e-zine is dedicated to learning. But it not meant to be a tutorial e-zine - virmakers with different skill levels find in it a lot of useful information.

> THE MAIN IDEA OF THE E-ZINE

> "Top Device" is a online, noncommercial e-zine consisting of cool tutorials and articles about virmakers, the VX-scene, AV soft and, of course, new viral technologies in different groups: DOS, Win32, Script, Trojan, Anti-AV, and many others. Top Device is not related to any VX-group. And although the first two issues were released by the DRuG team, now Top Deivce is a wholly independent e-zine.

> WHY IS IT ON-LINE?

> In the world's VX scene, an exclusivly on-line zine is unusual. Why is it better than the old zipped e-zines? The first reason is, of course, that an on-line e-zine wins readers, as they always get the newest information. It also wins authors, as now their creations don't deal with any deadlines, and they can work quietly, and only thing that makes them work fast is wanting to show their creations to our readers as soon as possible. But not every dude in the ex-USSR is wired to the Internet, therefore we shall pack all the HTML's into an archieve and distribute it in that off-line form.

> DISCLAIMER

> If you want to take part in the creation of a great new on-line e-zine and you want to take part in uniting the World and ex-USSR virus scenes - we waiting for some VX-related materials and articles from you. We have only one condition: your materials are exclusive (not published before publication in our e-zine)."

> Name: TPVO / OVEL Magazine

> Origin: TPVO / Taiwan

> 1 - April 1995 | 2 - August 1995
> 3 - March 1996 | 4 - September 1996

> Contents: Ezine consisting of articles, sources and codes. Issue #3 had the source and code to Dark Killer's Mutation Engine (DKME) 1.0. As of issue #4 the name OVEL (Organization of Virus Examination Lab) was used.

> Name: Turmoil

> Origin: LT/RSA & LT / International

> 1 - November 1996 | 2 - May 1997

> Contents: These virus oriented zines contain several viruses and source codes. A VGA/ANSI browser is included. Issue #2 contained Unknown's Virus Creator UVC.

> Name: VBB Magazine

> Origin: VBB / International

> 1 - June 1996 | 2 - June 1996
> 3 - August 1996 | 4 - January 1997

> Contents: E-zine consisting of among other things virus oriented assembly programming techniques, a virus source code and a group application form. All releases had Word Macro viruses either in source or code format. As of #4 hacking related material was being introduced.

> Name: Virii Search

> Origin: Criminal Minded / USA

> 1 - 1992 | 2 - July 1992 | 3 - August 1992

> Contents: Electronic virus newsletter by Criminal Minded featuring virus techniques, articles and source codes.

> Name: Virogen's Code Journal

> Origin: Virogen / USA

> 1 - May 1995

> Contents: This one and only issue was one of Virogen's attempt at releasing his virus material. It contains the source and code of version 0.5 of VICE, his polymorphic engine, a couple of signature extractors and his CodeJournal virus.
> An EGA/VGA/ANSI browser/viewer is included.

> Name: Virus Brasil

> Origin: Brasil

> 1 - January 1999 | 2 - April 1999 | 3 - July 1999
> 4 - October 1999 | 5 - January 2000 | 6 - April 2000
> 7 - July 2000 |  |

> Contents: This (initially) ASCII based zine contains material (source, debug scripts and essays) covering the Brasilian virus scene. Issue #3 was released in both ASCII and HTML, Issue #4 was released in Rich Text Format (.RTF). While issue #6 was released in multiple formats issue #7 was only available as a Win16 executable (Compiled HTML using the Info Courier 1.38 similar to VDAT).

> Name: VLAD Magazine

> Origin: VLAD / Australia

> 1 - July 1994 | 2 - October 1994 | 3 - February 1995
> 4 - April 1995 | 5 - August 1995 | 6 - February 1996
> AF - April 1996 | 7 - October 1996 |

> Contents: Articles, viral sources, disassemblies, viral tricks, interviews. Issue #6 contained the source to the "first" Windows 95 virus, called Boza by the press and AV community but it was called Bizatch by its author, Quantum. Issue AF is an April Fool's edition filled with weird virus material, at the same time it is the first issue after the leadership changed from Metabolis to Qark. In October 1996 issue #7 was the retirement issue of the VLAD magazine.

> Name: VX United

> Origin: Nuclei / VX United

> 1 - July 1998 | 2 - December 1998

> Contents: Created by several people from the virus underground this e-zine did not originate from a specific virus group. It contains a mix of sources, codes, interviews and techniques pertinent to recent computer virus events.

> Name: VXtasy

> Origin: Lord Julus / Rumania

> 1 - August 1999

> Contents: Created by one individual from the virus underground this e-zine did not originate from a specific virus group. It contains a mix of sources, codes, an interview and techniques with emphasis on Win32 virus programming. It has a viewer for ASCII data files.

> Name: VTC Newsletter

> Origin: Shadow Seeker / VTC

> 1 - February 1999

> Contents: Created as an internal newsletter for VTC members it covers some virus collecting specific subjects. As so many things in the VX scene it never received a follow on. This was due to the disbanding of VTC.

> Name: V-Zone

> Origin: V-Zone / Irkutsk

> 1 - Oktober 1997

> Contents: This e-zine contains several virus source codes (ASM, WordBasic) and some virus technology pieces.

> Name: Xine

> Origin: IKX / International

> 1 - November 1996 | 2 - April 1997 | 3 - May 1998
> 4 - September 1999 |  |

> Contents: A mix of tutorials, sources and virus codes these E-zines cover many subjects in the HPAV scene. Issue #2 contains several Commodore Amiga related virus articles and tutorials. Issue #3 was loaded with many viruses and tutorials, many of them related to 32-bit platform infections. After a long pause issue #4 was released. It again contains many articles, viruses and other virus related material.