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Uni virus writing course 'is madness'

Nov 17, 2003 12:20AM PST

A PLAN to teach virus writing at university has come under severe criticism at a conference of the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers.

"Stopping virus writers is the job of law enforcement, not of computer science graduates," Dr Vesselin Bontchev, a computer virus and security expert at FRISK Software in Reykjavik, Iceland, said at the Sydney conference.

"The job of graduates is to stop the creations of these criminals - not the criminals themselves.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7893491%255E15322,00.html

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