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class=\"style7\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <font color=\"#FB7014\" size=\"4\" face=\"Tahoma\">Computer-Virus Writer&#8217;s: A Few Bats In The Belfry?<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"19\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style2\">by: &#13;<br \/>\n                <font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#FB7014\">Dean Phillips<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"12\"><span class=\"style2\">&#8220;Male. Obsessed with computers. Lacking a girlfriend. Aged &#13;<br \/>14 to 34. Capable of creating chaos worldwide.&#8221; &#13;<\/p>\n<p>The above description is the profile of the average computer-virus writer, according to Jan Hruska, the chief executive of British-based Sophos PLC, the world&#8217;s fourth-largest anti-virus solutions provider. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have a chronic lack of girlfriends, are usually &#13;<br \/>socially inadequate and are drawn compulsively to write self-&#13;<br \/>replicating codes. It&#8217;s a form of digital graffiti to them,&#8221; &#13;<br \/>Hruska added.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>To create and spread cyber infections, virus writers explore &#13;<br \/>known bugs in existing software, or look for vulnerabilities &#13;<br \/>in new versions. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>With more and more new OS (operating system) versions, there &#13;<br \/>will be more new forms of viruses, as every single software &#13;<br \/>or OS will carry new features, and new executables that can &#13;<br \/>be carriers of the infection.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Executables are files that launch applications in a &#13;<br \/>computer&#8217;s operating system, and feature more prominently in &#13;<br \/>new platforms like Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 2000 and Windows XP &#13;<br \/>than they did in the older DOS or Windows 3.1. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Virus writers also share information to create variants of &#13;<br \/>the same infection, such as the Klez worm, which has been &#13;<br \/>among the world&#8217;s most prolific viruses. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Klez, a mass-mailing worm that originated in November &#13;<br \/>2001, propagates via e-mail using a wide variety of messages &#13;<br \/>and destroys files on local and network drives. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>But the news gets worse. Recent events have uncovered what &#13;<br \/>may be a new trend: spammers paying virus writers to create &#13;<br \/>worms that plant an open proxy, which the spammer then can &#13;<br \/>use to forward spam automatically. Many suspect this &#13;<br \/>occurred with the SoBig virus. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Sobig worms, began spreading in the early part of &#13;<br \/>2003. The unusual thing about them was they contained an &#13;<br \/>expiration date and were given a short life cycle to see how &#13;<br \/>features worked in the wild. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Having an expiration date also makes the virus more &#13;<br \/>dangerous, because most people would have been alerted to &#13;<br \/>the new worm within a few weeks and anti-virus definitions &#13;<br \/>would have been updated. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>A variant of Sobig, Sobig-F was so efficient that just a few &#13;<br \/>infected machines could send thousands of messages. Sobig-F &#13;<br \/>created a denial-of-service effect on some networks, as e-&#13;<br \/>mail servers became clogged with copies of the worm.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>According to Mikko Hypponen, manager of anti-virus research &#13;<br \/>for Finland-based F-Secure Corp, Sobig-F sent an estimated 300 million copies of itself.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Computer Economics, Inc. states, &#8220;Nearly 63,000 viruses have &#13;<br \/>rolled through the Internet, causing an estimated $65 &#13;<br \/>billion in damage.&#8221;  However criminal prosecutions have been &#13;<br \/>few, penalties light and just a handful of people have gone &#13;<br \/>to prison for spreading the destructive bugs. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Why is so little being done? Antiquated laws and, for many &#13;<br \/>years, as crazy as it sounds, a &#8220;wink, wink&#8221; or even admiring attitude toward virus creators.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>One person has been sent to prison in the United States and &#13;<br \/>just two in Britain, authorities say. But the low numbers &#13;<br \/>are &#8220;not reflective of how seriously we take these cases, &#13;<br \/>but more reflective of the fact that these are very hard &#13;<br \/>cases to prosecute,&#8221; said Chris Painter, the deputy chief of computer crimes at the U.S. Department of Justice. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>So what can you do to protect yourself against computer viruses?&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Well, first and foremost, make sure you have proven anti-virus protection like like Symantec&#8217;s Norton Anti-Virus or McAfee&#8217;s ViruScan.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, If you haven&#8217;t already done so, I highly recommend installing Microsoft&#8217;s Service Pack 2. SP2 tightens your PC&#8217;s security with a new Windows Firewall, an improved Automatic Updates feature, and a pop-up ad blocker for Internet Explorer. Plus, the newly minted Security Center gives you one easy-to-use interface for keeping tabs on your PC&#8217;s security apps.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Male. Obsessed with computers. 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