Author of peer-to-peer computer virus captured

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UPDATED 8:50 P.M.: Milmont said in an e-mail exchange tonight that he has suffered from a brain tumor from an early age that was discovered when he was 16, around when he began work on the virus.

‘It is obvious to me and my family that this greatly affected my mental, physical and emotional state,’ Milmont wrote. ‘Most of the illegal activity took place before I was 18, and I wouldn’t do it today.’