Cyber villains clash for world domination Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun
Computer users awoke to an explosion of competing electronic viruses Wednesday as three virus creators clashed in the first cyber struggle for world domination of the Internet.
At stake are vast armies of Internet-connected computers that virus makers are trying to control. Once under their control, they sell access to the computers to spammers, who use them to send out a constant barrage of junk mail.