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    6 months ago

    Flashback to 2001 when someone with zero programming skills created a virus that shut down countless mailservers al over the world:

    De Wit created Anna Kournikova in a matter of hours using a simple online Visual Basic Worm Generator program written by an Argentinian programmer called [K]Alamar. “The young man had downloaded a program on Sunday, February 11, from the Internet and later the same day, around 3:00 p.m., set the virus loose in a newsgroup.”