1.   And because the chip can be written to, a virus writer can kill it.

2.   And some have escalated their role from tipster to sleuth, accumulating evidence to identify actual suspects, including malicious hackers, virus writers and online child pornographers.

3.   And virus writers are more sophisticated these days.

4.   And yet not every virus writer can be labeled as an evil, technophobic prodigy.

5.   Because the patch is a software solution, Trischetta argued, virus writers may be able to devise their own computer program to get around it.

6.   A tip from a Swedish computer expert sent Richard Smith to a Web site run by a virus writer who identified himself with the screen name of VicodenES.

7.   All a virus writer wants to do is to drop a cockroach in our collective punch bowl.

8.   But other virus writers are closer to digital arsonists, writing virus programs intended to crash computers or erase data.

9.   But some virus writers contend that it is far too simplistic to characterize all virus writers as malicious.

10.   But virus writers are busy, busy people.