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title: Good bad and ugly viruses
date: "2001-06-05T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1813
description: I categorize the spectrum of computer viruses, from harmful malware to proposed beneficial code and deceptive hoaxes like the sulfnbk.exe warning, reflecting on the different types of digital threats and misinformation.
keywords: [viruses, malware hoaxes, sulfnbk.exe, computer security, symantec, beneficial viruses]
---

Viruses are bad. But some are [good](http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5949401.html), and others, [ugly](http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html) (hoaxes, that is).