Authorities may be a step closer to finding the source of the Love Bug virus, thanks to Caller ID... And a student whose website poked irreverence at his vice principal thought his punishment would stop with his parents grounding him and putting him on computer restriction - guess again... The Web Roundup gets the unusual bugs out. nrnMANILA, The Philippines - A Philippine Internet service provider says caller ID traced the origin of the Love Bug to a phone line here which was used before for breaking into its computer network. That's how authorities made such a quick trace of the bug to a neighborhood which included a youthful computer student who has said he might have launched the Love Bug by accident earlier this month. Sky Internet, the ISP, tells Reuters the Love Bug might first have sent copies of itself to e-mail addressed on victimized computers, then used the computer's Web browser to run a program on a Sky Internet Web server to steal passwords stored in the computer and send them to an e-mail address at another Philippine ISP, ImpactNet. The Love Bug whipped around the world faster and wider than any computer virus in history, wreaking an estimated $10 billion in damage. The student, Onel de Guzman, hasn't yet said whether he actually wrote the Love Bug, though his computer school believes the Love Bug might have been the inadvertent offspring of two combined programs by de Guzman and graduate Michael Buen. Two other people de Guzman lived with - his sister, Irene, and her boyfriend Reonel Ramones - were also named as likely suspects, but Ramones was arrested and released a week ago for lack of evidence. Authorities are still examining 17 computer disks seized from de Guzman's apartment. nrnOLYMPIA, Wash. - Karl Beidler thought his website satirizing his assistant principal was funny enough, including mock images of him having sex with Homer Simpson. Timberline High School was not amused - doh! They suspended him for the rest of the school year in January 1999. And Beidler in turn was not amused: he's suing the North Thurston School District for violating his First Amendment rights. The school district and the ACLU, which represents Beidler, argued in Thurston County Superior Court May 12. The ACLU argued the student, now a senior at Timberline, used no school equipment or time to build the website, and included a disclaimer warning against seeing the site at school. The school district says it has every authority to police Beidler's off-campus speech because the website defamed the assistant principal and disrupted the school. Beidler - whose parents grounded him, forced him to take the site down, and docked his computer privileges - told reporters he's only angry that punishment wasn't enough in the end. nrn--- Compiled By Humphrey Pennyworth
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