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¶3 GREENPEACE FOR COMPUTER USERS
¶2From the Danish newspaper "Praestoe
Avis".
¶1Erik Loevendahl Soerensen, at number
10 Snaphanevej, Praestoe, Denmark is
looking forward to the EEC making its
mind up on unified rules for data
security.
Several countries currently have no
legislation at all in this area, but a
committee is working right now on a
proposal for the harmonisation and
strengthening of regulations on data
security.
On the committee are representatives
of the private computer users' inter-
national organisation, Safe Hex
International, of which Erik
Loevendahl Soerensen is the prime
mover. SHI can be likened to a
computer users' Greenpeace, which is
trying to keep the environment clean
and free of viruses and pollution. It
is, according to Erik Loevendahl
Soerensen, a growing problem.
"If a user puts a 'polluted' disk into
his computer, the computer can break
down. The problem is serious because
the number of computer viruses is
quadrupling annually at the moment",
says Erik Loevendahl Soerensen, who
believes that the number of computer
viruses will reach uncomfortable
proportions in just a few years.
¶3 OVER THE WHOLE WORLD
¶2--------------------------------------
¶1SHI now has 20 centres the world over,
where computer users can get free help
over the phone. When Erik Loevendahl
began to collect computer viruses it
was the first step in the
international organisation which is
led from Praestoe. They were sent to
talented programmers all round the
world who make virus killers.
"Since then things have happened so
fast for the organisation that we can
hardly keep up", says Erik Loevendahl
Soerensen, who has nothing against
contacting people on social security,
or the unemployed, who are "just as
computer mad as himself".
Besides, Erik Loevendahl Soerensen has
just been praised for his great work
in combatting computer viruses at the
award ceremony for the Danish Data
Security prize. Besides collecting
and warning private computer owners
against viruses, Erik Loevendahl
Soerensen has written several articles
on the subject for publications, both
at home and abroad.