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Photos: Vicious viruses find a home in art

A new take on computer imagery

By James Martin on 27 April 2009 13:16

Fake anti-spyware program Rogueware Spysheriff will slow a computer and display pop-up ads. After MessageLabs intercepted these codes and diffused them so they were rendered inoperative, Dragulescu built an application to analyse them and used their values to create 3D visualisations.

Photo credit: Alex Dragulescu

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  1. 1. karen challinor

    interesting visualisations, they have been around for a while though

    what would be nice, although a bit far fetched and scifi at the moment, would be a way to visualise the software on your PC in a similar manner in real time as one of these little monsters attacks

    then of course you can turn it into a game and fly around the visualisation nuking the baddies before they do any real damage

    ... hmm so you could use your kids as anti virus software .... I wonder exactly how difficult this would be

    I'm in a bit of a flippant mood today, just in case you hadn't guessed

    • 27 April 2009 16:28
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