A Beautiful Virus
April 13, 2008
When computer worms Mydoom, NetSky, and Parite infected user hard drives and unleashed a series of malfunctions, no one swooned in delight. But they may now after seeing the viruses through the eyes of Alex Dragulescu, an artist and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His series, called Malwarez, uses the patterns of code found in worms, viruses, trojans, and spyware and transforms them into virtual entities that appear lifelike.
The art was commissioned by MessageLabs, a computer security company, and you can see examples of it here.
Illustration: MyDoom by Alex Dragulescu
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