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...about creating my own virus, the first created by someone who is not the manufacturer of antivirus software. By ?creating,? I mean writing about it and hoping a reader makes it for me. The Stein Virus Variant A will find Web users over 60 and e-mail them my column every week. Stein Virus Variant B will infiltrate the AOL home page and jam it with a big story about what Erik Estrada is up to now. You can imagine how disheartened I was to discover that that?s exactly what is already on the AOL home page...
...deleted the messages and emptied the Recycle Bin. Then I went to the Web for guidance. Cursing myself for not using an antivirus program on my home computer (I use McAfee.com's at work), I learned that the Homepage virus is the most common bug--technically, it's a "worm"--out there. It afflicts only PC users of Microsoft Outlook and would not damage my computer. But it would immediately mail itself to everyone in my address book--that is, everyone to whom I've ever sent a Reply message. The worm also resets your browser's home page...
WICK: My favorite stock and largest position is Symantec, the leading company in antivirus software and a contender in things like vulnerability assessment. Symantec is a very well-run company, extremely profitable. They've been buying back stock religiously, and it's very cheap. I'd make the argument that security is growing as a percentage of corporate information technology spending, and it's more resistant to recessionary cutbacks. Another software company that we like is Autodesk. If you're an architect and want to translate your thoughts or drawings into a computer-generated model, you use Autodesk's drafting...
...friends in 1999, Eyestrain decided to return to the capital. He got off the bus with $150 in his pocket and hopes of finding work as a programmer or system administrator. But without a degree, finding computer work has been impossible. Ieta Chi, general manager at Trend Microsystems, an antivirus company that employs more than 280 people at its Manila office, says his desk is flooded with applicants like Eyestrain. "We can't really afford to waste time seeing people who haven't even finished school," Chi says...
...future (not current) products, using a Trojan-horse virus called QAZ that's written in a Microsoft programming language (Visual C++). The pilfered passwords were sent to an e-mail address registered in St. Petersburg, Russia, through Hotmail--another Microsoft service. Even worse, Vincent Gullotto, head of the antivirus emergency-response team at security site McAfee.com claims he warned Microsoft of the "medium risk" virus three months ago. "Hackers hit Microsoft every day," says Gullotto. "It's the company virus writers love to hate." Which, if nothing else, gives the FBI plenty of suspects...