Slashdot has a good discussion going on about this article about former virus writer Marek Strihavka. Strihavka apparently ran with a gang of Russian programmers (known collectively as 29A), but has reformed himself and now works for an internet security firm. He claims he did not distribute the virii he wrote and his work was merely research oriented — he wrote the virii to see what could be done about them. First problem — someone had to distribute the code. If it wasn’t Strihavka, it had to be one of his cohorts. If he was working as some sort of guardian angel, trying to make the internet a better place, why wasn’t he at a university or AV company from the start?

Posted on 15 January 2005