Several manufacturers of virus protection tools such as Symantec, Cheyenne, Trend and Dr. Solomon have made updates immediately available on their websites. Several are also making available limited time versions of their virus protection software which can also scan for the virus. Macintosh and Unix users have no need to be concerned about Hare.7610 unless they are running DOS emulators. Relatively few of the perpetrators have been found and arrested, and their varied backgrounds make it difficult to generalise. It's fashionable to describe hackers as young and rebellious, but some very vile code has been generated by people who don't fit that chic description.
Viruses are an statement of power and a flexing of intellectual muscle.
A virus author is defying the sanctity of your seemingly infallible machine and stamping his name, or rather nom de plume on your property, telling you that he's pretty damned important. It is at once an act of digital rape and a salvaging of identity from an impersonal world. The programmer as anti-hero. In the midst of all this seemingly mindless wickedness, there is a silver lining. Part of the future of computer intelligence banks on the existence of computer agents, tiny bits of software than can represent our needs and desires across international networks.