Monday, January 24, 2005

The New York Times > Technology > A Virus Writer Tests the Limits in Cellphones

The New York Times > Technology > A Virus Writer Tests the Limits in Cellphones: "A Virus Writer Tests the Limits in Cellphones

Marcos Velasco, virus code writer, at home in Volta Redonda, Brazil, with his son Maicon, 5 months old, and his daughter Caroline, 8.


John Maier for The New York Times

Computer security experts around the world have given his virus and its variants more toxic-sounding names like "Lasco.A," "Symbos_Vlasco.A" or simply "the Lasco virus." They are also calling it stupid.

"We think he's dangerous," said Mikko Hypponen, the director of antivirus research for a Finnish company, F-Secure, "because he publicly posts working mobile malware that any clown anywhere can easily download and use."

By TOM ZELLER Jr.

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