But AMA is also home to grammerSoft, an underground computer group that provides programming to small businesses and allegedly sells thesis projects and homework to other students. De Guzman was a grammerSoft member. Officials suspect that the Love Bug was formed by combining de Guzman's and Buen's work. These common features are one clue pointing to grammerSoft's involvement. The Philippines has all the makings of a fertile breeding ground for viruses.
Computer laws are hazy.
In fact, it's not clear that the Love Bug violates any local law. As for his motivation, de Guzman has been murky. This kind of political activism is the driving force behind the world's emerging hacker hotbeds. The Pakistan Hackerz Club has been making regular runs against American and Indian Internet sites. At the same time, nato's mail system was flooded with virus-carrying messages from Belgrade.