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London man charged with making virus (Reuters)

Reuters News Agency reports the arrest of the suspected author of "the malicious "T0rn" virus that attacked Linux computer systems". The suspect was assested at his home in Surbiton, southwest of London, England.

T0rn, which later was modified by a Chinese virus-writing group to create another worm known as Lion, circulated in the digital wild for much of 2001, but did relatively little harm.

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