V I R U S A L E R T DHIVEHINET VIRUS ALERT SERVICE Our viruschecker found the 'W32/Badtrans-B' 'W32/Badtrans-B' virus(es) in an email to you from: emzee@dhivehinet.net.mv Delivery of the email was stopped! The sender of the email has been notified accordingly.

The above virus alert was received from postmaster@dhivehinet.net.mv in the mailbox of Majid's Pages public relations consultant on Saturday, 15 December 2001 at 10:28:25 PM, New Zealand Daylight Time.

Our technical team has identified emzee@dhivehinet.net.mv as the email address of a high-ranking officer of the General Staff of the Maldives National Security Service (NSS). The NSS is the paramilitary police, defence, presidential bodyguard, intelligence, espionage and civil defence organ of the Maldives regime.

Section 298 of the Crimes Act 1961 provides that wilful damage to property located in New Zealand, which includes wilful damage to intangible property such as information or data stored in a computer system in New Zealand, is a criminal offence. Any person who commits or attempts to commit an offence under section 298 of the Crimes Act 1961 is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years.

According to the United States Department of State and Amnesty International, the Maldives National Security Service (NSS) has engaged in human rights violations. It is possible that some such documented cases come within the definition of crimes against humanity. So far, there is no documented evidence of any criminal activity by the NSS within the sovereign jurisdiction of another State.

dhivehinet.net.mv is the domain name of DhivehiNet, a subsidiary of Dhiraagu PLC, the state controlled monopoly providing Internet services in the Maldives. This is a joint venture between the Maldives regime and the UK-based Cable & Wireless group.

The team at Majid's Pages thanks Dhiraagu for protecting Internet users from immature behaviour.

National Security Service