nisms, or what would today be called viruses. He never would have expected that the concept would later be twisted into destructive means. He opened the doors for using a machine as a powerful extension of the mind. His programs still remain fascinating to this day for their technical ingenuity and the beauty of the images that they create [4]. However they have come a long way since the 60's. Today hackers are planting viruses all over; the potential for getting a virus is much easier than before, especially now that the Internet is so commonly used [2]. Just a few years ago viruses were mainly spread through shared floppy disks, now one can infest into your system as you read your e-mail. Many people under-estimate the power of hackers and the viruses they write.
             Hackers are the most active group developing and sharing the technological wisdom of how viruses work. They have great intellectual skills and not all of them are putting them to bad use creating malicious viruses. The actual harmful virus creators are averaged to be males between the ages of
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