Abstract:

Just a couple of years ago virus writers were nothing but scattered
amateurs who did the "virus job" just for fun or self-affirmation. What is
happening with these people now, are they having other means of
motivation and what should we expect from the computer underground
in the near future?

The presentation gives an in-depth retrospective of the history of virus
writing, looking at the current trends in virus propagation and considers
what might happen in the future. Presented by Eugene Kaspersky,
world-renowned Anti-Virus Researcher and founder of Kaspersky Labs.

Biography:

Born in Novorossiysk, Russia, Eugene graduated from the Institute of
Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science and worked at a
multi-disciplinary scientific research institute until 1991. He began
studying computer viruses in 1989, when the Cascade virus was detected
on his computer.
From 1991 to 1997 Eugene worked at the KAMI Information Technologies
Center where he developed the AVP antivirus project with a group of
associates (AVP was renamed Kaspersky Anti-Virus in November 2000).
Eugene Kaspersky became a co-founder of Kaspersky Labs in 1997.

Today Eugene Kaspersky is one of the world's leading experts in the
information security field: he has written a large number of articles
and reviews covering the problem of computer virology and speaks
regularly at specialized seminars and conferences all over the world.
Eugene is a member of the Computer Antivirus Researchers' Organization
(CARO); the global association of leading antivirus experts.

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