Gigabyte (virus writer)
Kimberley Vanvaeck,[1] also known as her online name Gigabyte,[2] is virus writer from Belgium known for a long-standing dispute which involved the internet security firm Sophos and one of its employees, Graham Cluley.[1][3][4][5] Vanvaeck wrote several viruses, including Quis, Coconut, Sahay, and YahaSux. She also created a Sharp virus (also called "Sharpei"), credited as being the first virus to be written in C Sharp.[2][6]
Vanvaeck's dispute with Cluley began after he made several comments concerning the gender of virus writers.[6] This prompted Vanvaeck to write several viruses that specifically targeted Cluley which were stated to be written as proof-of-concept rather than releasing them in the wild.[1]
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