Welsh virus mastermind convicted
Source: Europe Media
Discretion is indeed the better part of valour – or, Vallor, in the case of twenty-two-year-old Simon Vallor of Llandudno in Wales, who pled guilty last week to having most indiscreetly uncorked what prosecutors termed “the third most destructive virus worldwide” at its epidemic height in 2001.
Mr. Vallor owned up to having pumped out three mass e-mails last year - GoKar, Redesi, and Admirer - which, when opened, laced the virus across all the entries in recipients’ address books. Twenty-seven thousand computers in forty-two countries were overrun. Subject headings bore such enticements as “You have a secret admirer,” in order to entrap vain and inquisitive readers.
