The article by Roulla Yiacoumi at Newswire entitled "NewLove bug threat emerges"

[Mark Arena <marena () IINET NET AU>]

To who it may concern,

With regards to the article titled "NewLove bug threat emerges" at
http://www.newswire.com.au/apcweb/news.nsf/Web/LatestNews/2E3B2120DC61DCABCA
2568E7000B3385?OpenDocument

This part at the end of the article is completly incorrect:
"According to Wired News, an Australian hacker has been blamed for the
spread of the new virus"
Before assuming things it is the responsibility of the writer to actully
understand what has happened. For starters if you actully read the article
on wired it says the Australian hacker "Valiant" didnt actully make the new
virus. He made a variant which he copied off the love virus as an example of
how easy it is to make. It also says that the virus he made was harmless. He
did not make this "new virus" he just made a good example how to make it.
This virus he had was not released just sent to wired.

The following is taken from the Wired article at
http://www.wired.com/news/lovebug/0,1768,36477,00.html
"Also earning villain points from Valiant are media outlets that wildly jump
on any information that contains the word "virus."  - Maybe Newswire could
take some hints from this one?

"Valiant," the founder of Australian hacker group Halcon, sent his harmless
"ILOVEYOUTOO" worm code to Wired last week as a demonstration of how to
script a variant of a virus. "

Maybe just as a suggestion newswired staff should actully read articles they
take information from, just an idea.

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Mark Arena                         marena () iinet net au
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