
Rem by: spyder / / Group / Manila,Philippinesīarok, by the way, is a well-known comic book character in the Philippines it’s also the name of a password-stealing Trojan that the Love Bug malware tried to download onto infected computers, using the curious but innocent-sounding name WIN-BUGSFIX.exe.

He never finished his studies, bailing out of college after turning in a password stealing Trojan as an independent study project which he promoted as follows: In this case, the malware author seemed to have been telling the truth about his whereabouts, because a suspect was soon identified: a college student in Manila by the name of Onel de Guzman. The importance of this study is to help other people most especially Windows users. We all know that when we connect to the internet we spend a lots of money to pay the accounts for only using a couple of hours. His lecturer did not take kindly to this, commenting “this is illegal” and noting that “we do not produce BURGLARS.” What happened next?Īpparently, de Guzman’s lecturer got one detail wrong in his reponse: de Guzman may have been a burglar as far as the spirit of the law was concerned… So this program is the main solution, use it to steal and and retrieve Internet accounts of the victim’s computer.

…but when it came to the letter of the law, the police couldn’t find a way to charge him under what would now probably be anti-hacking regulations or computer misuse laws.
