How to start a trade

If your are new in the trading business and you are looking for a way to start, you can use several utilies to sort your collection without troubling your mind ... ...

1. You should check to see whether you have the same files more than one time, since it is pretty useless to have the same virus 2 or more times. To do so, you can use VirusBuster's VirWeed (it is included in VS2000) or HomeSlice's VirWeed.

2. You must find out whether your files have the correct file extension. E.g. if you have an infected file c:\virus\virus.txt, i would say that the file's extension ".txt" should probably be something like ".html" or so. To do the necessary corrections, you need a very handy-to-use utility by Phage, called RenExts (here is the latest version 1.52).

3. You should scan your collection to find and remove all "fake" virii. We call them "fake" for 3 main reasons; a) because they are not real virii, but only files that have been generated to fool the antivirus programs and thus be identified as real virii samples; b) because they are only properly-edited real virii samples, in order to be identified by some antivirus programs as new virii; c) because, although they contain some viral code, for some reason they are not able to work as they should (a.k.a. infect a pc). For this purpose you can use a) a very good program made by VirusBuster, called Fakescanner (it is included in VS2000) b) CWarrior's FWeed (here is the latest version 1.10).

4. You must have a utility to sort your collection. Imagine how long it could take you to sort your-let's say 20,000 files-collection file-by-file!!! For this purpose i would recommend VS2000 by VirusBuster, which is great for "automatically" sorting your collection in a way that you may both manipulate it and trade with others very easily.

Log files of my collection :

• Kaspersky (AVP) antivirus of 29-03-2008

• F-Prot antivirus of 25-02-2007

• RAV antivirus of 08-10-2007

• Nod32 antivirus of 08-10-2005

• McAfee antivirus of 29-03-2008

• DrWeb antivirus of 06-01-2007

• BitDefender antivirus of 08-10-2005

• Detailed statistics of Kaspersky and F-Prot antivirus of my collection using VS2000.

• Total statistics of all antivirus programs that i use (Kaspersky, F-Prot, McAfee, RAV, DrWeb, BitDefender and Nod32).

In order to trade with me, it is important to use the following parameters for the antivirus programs :

Kaspersky (AVP) Antivirus : avpdos32 /m /b /p /v /* /s /o /k /y /w+=avp.log c:\virus

F-Prot Antivirus : f-prot /ai /archive /collect /dumb /nomem /packed /report=fprot.log c:\virus

RAV Antivirus : ravav --all -H=on -A -M --integrity_check=off --report=rav.log c:\virus

Nod32 Antivirus : nod32dos /break- /pack+ /arch+ /doboots /all /heurdeep /log+ /log=nod32.log c:\virus

DrWeb Antivirus : drweb386 c:\virus /al /arn /cn /ha /ml /nm /sd /tb /upn /rpdrweb.log

McAfee Antivirus : scan c:\virus /secure /mime /vid /program /nomem /!guru /sub /report=mcafee.log

Send the logs at : collecting@virus.gr.

Note : you should use ONLY the DOS versions of the above antivirus programs for vx trading.