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A young Japanese man has admitted to a court that he wrote a Trojan program which destroyed data on infected computers.
Masato Nakatsuji, aged 24, was the first person in Japan to be arrested for writing malicious programs when police questioned him in January.
It is reported that as there are no laws against creating viruses in that country, he will be charged with copyright infringement.
He spread the Trojan through an information-sharing network, using pirated cartoons as bait to lure users into downloading his software to their machines.
The program, believed to be the notorious Pirlames Trojan, then wiped music and film files from the systems it had infected.
A Trojan refers to a piece of malware which conceals itself within something desirable in order to fool the potential victim into downloading it.
Often such programs are concealed within games or masked as other forms of software.
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