The author of Chernobyl virus, currently wreaking havoc on computer systems across Asia, has been identified as a former computer engineering student at a Taiwanese college. Chen Ing-hau wrote the virus last year while at the Tatung Institute of Technology. The dean of student affairs at the college, Lee Chee-chen, said that Chen had been punished in April last year when the virus started to infect the college’s internal systems. However, the dean said that the student had not severely punished or expelled because he had warned other students not to spread the virus, which is also know as CIH after Chen’s initials. Chen never wrote an antidote to his creation. Dean Lee told the Associated Press that he was not sure how the virus had spread so far and wide. Chen is now in the Taiwanese army serving two year’s compulsory national service, government officials are seeking permission to question him.
