www – the wild, wild web

“The virus writing business – and it is a business – is becoming a powerful weapon in the hands of the spammers. Infect a few thousand PCs through the backdoor then use their combined power to send advertisements. Jump from 5 million emails per day to a couple of billion. Free to spammers, but very costly for end users.” Today ‘virus’ is a term well-known to every computer user, and many people wh...