January 31, 2008
What A Computer Virus Looks Like
When MessageLabs, an information security company who specializes in scanning for viruses and other various cyber threats, was challenged with the proposition of communicating the severity of these digital parasites, they turned to Romanian artist, Alex Dragulescu to develop images that showed what the threats look like graphically.
Using the actual code provided by MessageLabs from each of the threats, Dragulescu created images that fell into one of six different categories: viruses, phishing attacks, malicious web links, spam, trojans, and spyware.
According to the MessageLabs site:
Dragulescu’s projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets.
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