In (approx) 2004-2015 I was an active antimalwarefighter. It started with some helping out on the Danish supportingsite eksperten.dk (my first comment can be found here: Link). I gradually noticed some pretty skilled supporters — the heroes were people like Tonnybrandt, Fromsej, Andersenph, forevernewbie and victor-1. My first antimalware comment can be found here: Link. The default tool was for some time Hijackthis, which I learned to handle quite well.
I was later invited to join the community in Spywarefri.dk which is specialized in this kind of work. I was very honored, because this was were all my heroes resided. I started in September 2005 (link, link) and continued as supporter until 2015, in connection with a new structuring of the community (link). Especially the first years were characterized by some quite heated debates behind the lines — but it was also a forum with high standards and I learned a lot these years. And then we got along quite well socially too..
In these years I also got quite involved in the international antimalwarecommunity, in which my main success was the creation of the standardfix for the rustock.b-infection (link). I was somewhat active on sites like spywareinfo.com and castlecops (where I was part of the antirootkit-teamet). I was member of communities like ASAP and Unite. And in 2008 I was appointed by Microsoft as MVP (link).
My most geeky-work was carried out in my investigations into rootkit-infections, which among other things resulted in the creation of my own forum which was used for enlightenment, investigation and analysis. This was quite significant for my antimalware-work: I was incited by the complicated infections, I loved to dive into the details, and understand. And I was thrilled by the “heroes against villains”-narratives. My work also became a driver for development of my own scripts and programs.
The antimalwaremovement was probably at its strongest around Windows98, WindowsME, Windows2000 og WindowsXP. With the emmergence of new operatingsystems the infections diminished somewhat. At least I myself lost interest with my turn away from Windows, moving to Linux. Then I lost my energy in the antimalwarework. It became more distant. Thus, it is fair to say that my actual antimalwarework stopped some years before 2015, and the last years on Spywarefri I was more of a systemadministrator and advisor behind the lines.