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Profile of a Virus Writer: Pride to Profit

It used to be that the Hollywood portrayal of a computer virus Latest News about computer virus writer — the teenage, late night pizza-eating, underachieving genius who gets a kick out of taking down the White House Web — was fairly accurate. But today’s malicious code creator has a variety of ways to disrupt and trespass onto consumer and corporate PCs and networks: information-stealing trojans, spyware, spamming and phishing, and more. Full Story