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Friday, March 21, 2003
Viruses with a Cause - Laura Fording, Newsweek
Computer viruses that contain political messages have been around since the days of DOS. More recently, though, political viruses related to terrorism and the conflict in the Middle East have been circulating through computers around the world. Sometimes these bugs try to effect political change by targeting a specific group with messages that seemingly come from real people but are actually propagated by the virus itself. At other times, the virus may try to cause damage to specific Web sites for political reasons. Then there are those that feed upon the world’s current fixation with terrorism and the situation in Iraq. NEWSWEEK’s Laura Fording spoke about this phenomenon with Chris Wraight, technology consultant at Sophos, a company that specializes in antivirus protection.
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