Show Notes
A wild goose chase leads to a tip-off- and finally investigative journalist Geoff White comes face to face with man behind the Love Bug, the world's first global computer pandemic.
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As the "Love Bug" virus spreads around the world crippling computers in its wake, the investigation leads to the Philippines. Twenty years later, investigative journalist Geoff White picks up the long-cold trail, with dramatic results.
It was the first global computer virus pandemic and caused worldwide havoc. Yet no-one was ever convicted for it. Twenty years on, investigative journalist Geoff White goes on trail of the creator of the "Love Bug". In this episode, he and Glen Goodman look back on the virus that crippled an estimated 45 million machines.