The teacher never detected a malicious streak. He would never do anything that would create a big, big problem. He is very quiet. The two young men live in densely populated Manila neighborhoods, far from each other. 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.