News from the dead posted by caesar2k on February 9th 2011
Damn, a lot of time went by. Have been offline a lot lately, but looks like I'm back, but, for some people, with bad news.
I have zero motivation (money isn't a motivation) for win32/x64 programming anymore. After I started coding in web languages, like PHP, Ruby and Flash ActionScript, I lost all interest in windows programming. What would take months to be accomplished in Windows programming, takes a couple of days (or hours depending on the complexity of the project) in a web scripting language, and it's cross platform, without having to worry about different versions, if x64 or x86, etc.
What does this mean? It means, finally, that I'm officially dropping my public projects, I don't have the will to rebuild, retouch, thousands of lines of old code, in case of Nuclear RAT 3.0, 133k lines of code, of client and server combined. Or understand the x64 PE format, or learn about the new rootkit methods, "firewall bypass" methods, code injection, etc. I might create and release, someday, a new approach on trojanning, like I mentioned in some earlier news, using Flash or another mashup of technologies that allow remote administration without all the hassle of win32 programming, but I'm not promising anything. Nuclear RAT 3.0 is sitting there, on it's folder, broken and rendered useless since I started recoding the whole project, 2 years ago. It's hard to let a 5 year project, go. Seed 2.0 is also sitting there, broken. Took me web development to learn version control, Git/SVN that is, otherwise it wouldn't have happened I guess.
To everybody that emailed me (a couple of hundreds unread and unanswered emails), I will try to reply them all, those who emailed me in English/Portuguese of course.
The site will still be online, I will try to answer emails, with any questions that any of you might have regarding this, whenever I can, but I cannot also promise a prompt reply.
I have zero motivation (money isn't a motivation) for win32/x64 programming anymore. After I started coding in web languages, like PHP, Ruby and Flash ActionScript, I lost all interest in windows programming. What would take months to be accomplished in Windows programming, takes a couple of days (or hours depending on the complexity of the project) in a web scripting language, and it's cross platform, without having to worry about different versions, if x64 or x86, etc.
What does this mean? It means, finally, that I'm officially dropping my public projects, I don't have the will to rebuild, retouch, thousands of lines of old code, in case of Nuclear RAT 3.0, 133k lines of code, of client and server combined. Or understand the x64 PE format, or learn about the new rootkit methods, "firewall bypass" methods, code injection, etc. I might create and release, someday, a new approach on trojanning, like I mentioned in some earlier news, using Flash or another mashup of technologies that allow remote administration without all the hassle of win32 programming, but I'm not promising anything. Nuclear RAT 3.0 is sitting there, on it's folder, broken and rendered useless since I started recoding the whole project, 2 years ago. It's hard to let a 5 year project, go. Seed 2.0 is also sitting there, broken. Took me web development to learn version control, Git/SVN that is, otherwise it wouldn't have happened I guess.
To everybody that emailed me (a couple of hundreds unread and unanswered emails), I will try to reply them all, those who emailed me in English/Portuguese of course.
The site will still be online, I will try to answer emails, with any questions that any of you might have regarding this, whenever I can, but I cannot also promise a prompt reply.
