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The Love Bug the Media Won't Let Die

posted onFebruary 7, 2001
by hitbsecnews

The Chicago Tribune is running an expose on the Love Bug. I'll include an excerpt so you get the idea:

MANILA -- Welcome to hackers' paradise, where cyberspace is a battleground, computers are fortresses that rival gangs try to wipe out with sophisticated viruses and Onel de Guzman, the suspected author of the "love bug," is revered as "The Terminator."

Hackers here are convinced that the love bug went out of control last May during a cyberspace war between rival local gangs. The bug is widely considered to have been history's worst computer virus and may foreshadow worse to come, some experts fear.

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