안나쿠르니코바 제작자, 바이러스 피해 "사과"

by김윤경 기자
2001.02.14 11:38:50

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VBS/VBSWG.J 바이러스, 일명 안나쿠르니코바 바이러스의 제작자 "온더플라이(OnTheFly)"가 제작 동기와 방법을 공개하고 바이러스 전파에 따른 피해에 대해 사과했다. 안철수연구소가 14일 IT잡지 "와이어드"에 게재된 사과문을 전한데 따르면 그는 거의 모든 시간을 인터넷 검색으로 보내며, 우연히 러브레터 바이러스의 파급 효과에 대한 기사를 읽은 후 제작을 결심했다고 밝히고 있다. 그는 프로그램 언어를 전혀 모르나 공개돼 있는 비주얼 베이직 툴 킷을 이용해 이를 제작했으며, 사용자들에게 피해를 주고 싶은 의도는 전혀 없었다며 예상하지 못한 결과에 당황하고 있는 것으로 알려졌다. 사과문은 "http://members.tripodnet.nl/on_the_fly/index.html"에서 확인할 수 있다. 다음은 사과문 전문이다. Welcome to OnTheFly! After receiving several e-mails from news-papers and news-channels I decided to write this letter. The Netherlands, 13 februari 2001 Dear Sir/Madam, I admit writing the virus. In this letter I"d like you to know that I didn"t do it for fun. Let me first tell you how I made this. As I have been reading on the internet all the time, I have made this virus with a Visual Basic Worm Generator, written by [K]Alamar. K. is NOT involved with this worm! I have been using this programm because I don"t know any programming languages. About the targets Anna Kournikova: Just because I am a big fan of her. She deserves some attention, doesn"t she?? www.DynaByte.nl: Just because I needed a site. A couple of days ago I bought something in that Dutch Ccomputershop and at the moment of writing that virus I had the receipt in front of me, on my desk. I never meant to harm the site (tell me if I did). That"s why I put the 29th of januari as the date of downloading the site. I"m sure that the VBS/OnTheFly.a-virus is already stopped by then.. Some reasons Ok. This is the most important part of this &48206;ress-letter? Last week I read an artikle about some research (www.idc.com) about the impact of the LoveLetter-virus. The title of that artikle says enough: IDC: internetters hebben niets geleerd van I Love You (wich means in English: Surfing people haven"t learned anything from the I Love You-virus) I think IDC is right. I also think that you agree with me, according to the rate of spreading? Maybe this is also Anna"s blame, she is so pretty..J Last thing I"d like to say is that I never wanted to harm the people you opened the attachment. But after all: it"s their own fault they got infected with the AnnaKournikova virus, OnTheFly virus or watever they call it. To get rid of that virus, please visit the regular anti-virus sites. They all have some antdote right now. Sincerely, OnTheFly The Netherlands