A canal carries away filthy storm runoff to a nearby river, but the smells often remain. Roosters crow and dogs wander the streets. Michael Buen, right, sits with his lawyer Patrick Orosa at a news conference Sunday. De Guzman and Buen could have had any number of motives for creating a virus. One of them, investigators say, might have been to get free Internet access.
Internet access is expensive.
Most computer users, lacking credit cards, buy Internet access cards, like prepaid phone cards. When the time on the card runs out, Web surfing is cut off. It included information on how to rapidly copy files inside a computer. The thesis at one point quotes Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. De Guzman had a harder time.