1nternal | |
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Sex | Male |
Birth Date | |
Birth Place | Australia |
Operations | Brisbane, Australia |
Affiliation(s) | |
Years active | 1999 |
1nternal is a virus coder from Brisbane, Australia. He is best known as the creator of the first MS Office virus (one that can infect more than one type of Office file) Triplicate as well as one that can infect Office files, HTML and VBS files, Cross.
Biography
1nternal spent a great deal of his life in Brisbane, Australia. He studied engineering and IT at a university there.
He knows several programming languages, including Assembly, C, C++, VBScript, VBA and JavaScript. One of his first viruses, Rat.848 was coded when he had no Internet connection and only a book on advanced assembly. 1nternal never joined and VX groups. By 1999, he had coded around 20 viruses.
Name
1nternal takes his name from a 2880 internal modem he was using during an IRC session. He decided to stick with the name, but changed the "I" into the number 1 so it would not clash with others also using that name. This would later cause problems because some internet services would not accept a name beginning with a number.
Viruses/Worms
- O97/Cross
- W97.ACM/Nail
- RAT.848
- O97/Triplicate
Sources
Rhape97. Interview with 1nternal. 1999.03