█  Protection Notes                                       
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         █                                                       
         █  It's not everyday AiR feels the need to comment on  a  
         █  release but we believe some issues about Markus  Feil  
         █  need to  be addressed  for both  legitimate users and  
         █  the warez community.                                   
         █                                                         
         █  In  our  opinion   Markus  Feil's  plugins   are  the  
         █  equivilent to MALWARE, it is with disgust we find the  
         █  elaborate (and futile!) measures he has taken  within  
         █  his code.                                              
         █                                                         
         █  When a developer  starts dropping files  and creating  
         █  empty BOGUS  registry keys,  writing to  a users host  
         █  file etc.  then they  have crossed  a line  of ethics  
         █  that is inexcusable.                                   
         █                                                         
         █  One  could  argue  that  warez  users  get  what they  
         █  deserve, however... warez uses ALWAYS choose to  take  
         █  a  risk  when  they use  warez.  The  legitimate user  
         █  however gets exactly the SAME codebase and IF  things  
         █  go wrong they are subjected to the same MALWARE  crap  
         █  undeservedly.                                          
         █                                                         
         █  Furthermore, our  release is  BETTER than  what legit  
         █  users are  getting because  we have  disposed of  the  
         █  MALWARE traps and HAVE  ENABLED TWO EXTRA NEW  HIDDEN  
         █  expansions that  legit users  DON'T have and probably  
         █  DON'T know about.                                      
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         █  NOTE  TO Markus:  you are  tool, ppl  may debate  our  
         █  ethics but WE DON'T infect and manipulate filesystems  
         █  or  registries,  you're   no  better  than   a  virus  
         █  developer in our opinion.                              
         █                                                         
         █  Stick to what you know cause your protection  schemes  
         █  are no match for us <middle finger>                    
         █                                                         
         █  Some warez users like to  go legit, it's hard to  see  
         █  them  going   legit  with   your  plugins   when  the  
         █  experience you give them results in piss poor MALWARE  
         █  techniques. FUCK YOU!                                  
         █                                                         
         █  Here are some of  the techniques Markus infects  your  
         █  machine with:                                          
         █                                                         
         █  - Registry scanning                                    
         █                                                         
         █  - Filesystem scanning                                  
         █                                                         
         █  - Creating bogus registry keys                         
         █                                                         
         █  - File dropping                                        
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         █  - Multiple \system32\drivers\etc\host file updates     
         █                                                         
         █  - Deletion of files                                    
         █                                                         
         █  - Phone home notification                              
         █                                                         
         █  - ExitWindowsEx calls (causes machine to shutdown)     
         █                                                         
         █  - DLL unpacked checks                                  
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         █                                                         
         █  # Registry scanning...                                 
         █                                                         
         █  Markus has coded his plugins to look for other  Tone2  
         █  and reFX registry entries, if blacklisted serials are  
         █  found  then  his MALWARE  is  invoked. These  include  
         █  Firebird, FilterBank, Warmverb, Gladiator, Vanguard    
         █                                                         
         █  # Filesystem scanning...                               
         █                                                         
         █  Markus  has  coded  his  plugins  to  look  for other  
         █  products keyfiles, if blacklisted keyfiles are  found  
         █  then his MALWARE is invoked. This includes  FireBird,  
         █  FilterBank, Warmverb, Gladiator                        
         █                                                         
         █  # Bogus registry entries...                            
         █                                                         
         █  Markus creates keys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER               
         █                                                         
         █  at least two NEW keys with no data (not disclosing to  
         █  protect privacy). if you  have been subjected to  the  
         █  MALWARE traps check your  registry, the keys will  be  
         █  obvious as the names are crap, make no sense and they  
         █  have no data under them.                               
         █                                                         
         █  # File dropping...                                     
         █                                                         
         █  Markus creates:                                        
         █                                                         
         █  twdef.sys                                              
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         █  wvdriver.sys                                           
         █                                                         
         █  r2._9X1.r                                              
         █                                                         
         █  gldriver.sys                                           
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         █  gsndrun.sys                                            
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         █                                                         
         █  + about 4 other random file names (not disclosing  to  
         █  protect privacy)                                       
         █                                                         
         █  If your going to look  for these files make sure  you  
         █  have  turned  off  'Hide  protected  operating system  
         █  files' in explorer. Typically they are dropped in the  
         █  same location as the Gladiator2 dll.                   
         █                                                         
         █  # Update of hosts file...                              
         █                                                         
         █  Markus updates  the users  host file  with a  massive  
         █  list of warez, torrent and other site urls             
         █                                                         
         █  # Deletion of files...                                 
         █                                                         
         █  Markus  deletes  any  blacklisted  keyfiles  from the  
         █  users machine