The virus has been traced back to the Phillipines Police in the Philippines have raided the house of a person suspected of creating the Love Bug computer virus which caused havoc around the world last week.
Officials say they entered the house in the capital, Manila, after obtaining a search warrant.
Police originally thought the main suspect was male but now say they are looking for a female computer school student from a middle-class family. The FBI and Interpol helped track the virus to the Philippines through an electronic trail left by the rogue e-mails. US security experts said clues in the virus code pointed to a student at a computer college in the Philippines. Programmer is a German But Swedish researcher Fredrik Bjoerck said traces on the internet pointed to a German exchange student living in Australia. At least seven variations appeared soon after, one masquerading as an e-mail joke, another as a receipt for a Mother's Day gift.