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A hacker that says a 17-birthday girl to be, maintains the. Just-virus Sharpei to have written to prove that also women computer viruses can write. According to an antivirusexpert is the young lady originating from the Netherlands.

The Sharpei-worm will the first virus its that has been written in C-sharp, the computer language that Microsoft uses for be. Just-platform. The author of the virus has steered a copy of it to the English antiviruscompany Sophos. “She has the virus written a social point to make”, says Chris Wraight of Sophos. The author uses the pseudonym Gigabyte and she declares reports to be genspireerd through the seksisme in the through men dominated antivirusindustrie, Sophos.

In an e-mail at the business says Gigabyte for C-sharp to have chosen because one new language is and the “amusing layman with to experiment”.,. The virus will not meant are to spread, but as an intellectual challenge, to prove that the possible is a. Just-virus to write and Microsoft to pester. According to antivirusexpert Vincent Gullotto of McAfee is the virus through a Dutch written. “We think that she in the Netherlands lives and possible in Amsterdam through remarks that we found in viruses that she has written and through others examine that we done have”, writes Gullotto in an e-mail of socraweb Belgi.

The worm spreads itself via e-mail, but there be till so far yet no reports of contagions through Sharpei and antiviruscompanies label the worm as a low risk. Sharpei takes to spread advantage of the e-mailprogramma Outlook itself and has as subject rule 'Important: Windows update' and does self for as an update of Microsoft that the speeds of a system with 50 per cent can improve. The worm looks or it. Just-technology on a system is installed and as that as is then infects the program truce in the Windows-file and three arbitrary submappen in the file program truce.

If the appendixes by the e-mail are opened, steers the virus itself through to everybody in the address book of Outlook and let one warning see that the computer is infect. Microsoft want to know no updates per e-mail to spread and that Outlook 2002 the worm blocks. Also systems on which Microsoft Security Update is installed, will not according to Microsoft susceptible be for the worm. The most antivirusprogramma's offer meanwhile updates that the worms trace and remove.