Sarah Gordon, senior principal engineer of Symantec Security Response, is an expert on the psychology of virus writers. She serves as a director for The WildList Organization International, an independent source of information for “in the wild” viruses. She is also technical director at EICAR, an international non-profit group that combines numerous organizations to unite efforts against the writing and proliferation of malicious code, computer crime and fraud, and exploitation of personnel data on computers or networks.