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Phishing Scams and Viruses Can Be Beautiful, Deadly
Posted by Nick Broughall at 4:29 PM on February 26, 2008
Spam is horrible. Phishing is evil. Computer Viruses are potentially deadly (to your computer). They're also exsquisitely breathtaking, if you look at the work of Alex Dragulescu.
Security Firm MessageLabs commissioned the digital artist to create 15 interpretations of different viruses, trojans, spam, worms and spyware code. What you're looking at above is the MyDoom email worm.
The images were created by inserting part of the actual code from the various online threat into a proprietary algorithm which twisted it, turned it, shook it around and turned it into art. We've got more pics, plus the artist's own explanation below.
Security Firm MessageLabs commissioned the digital artist to create 15 interpretations of different viruses, trojans, spam, worms and spyware code. What you're looking at above is the MyDoom email worm.
The images were created by inserting part of the actual code from the various online threat into a proprietary algorithm which twisted it, turned it, shook it around and turned it into art. We've got more pics, plus the artist's own explanation below.
Call me crazy, but this sounds much worse to me than past viruses in the news: a new worm goes straight after MP3 files, deleting them all from your hard drive before moving on to find more victims. It's spread mostly via external devices, so as long as you don't plug in some random thumb drive you found on the street you should be OK. But seriously, stay away from my MP3s! Make me reinstall my OS, fine, but just don't touch the music. [
