Dirk Kollberg works as Virus Research Lead within the McAfee Avert, focused on analysis of worms such as massmailer, P2P and service exploiting threats like Slammer or RPC-DCOM threats. Dialers, PWS trojans, IRC bots, script- and macro viruses. Being born and working based in Hamburg, he does have a good view on European threats, especially on those from Germany. Before he started at McAfee in 1999, he has been working for 5 years as electronics technician on automated manufacturing processes and another year as 3D designer for product presentations on the web. He blames Commodore PET as reason of his addiction to bits and bytes.