Five Questions For Alex Shipp, Antivirus technologist at MessageLabs

Alex Shipp is the "imagineer" at MessageLabs, responsible for inventing new ways of stopping viruses, Trojans, and other kinds of malware. The software code he wrote helped detect and stop a major e-mail virus known as Love Bug. When Shipp isn't inventing, he plays croquet --and he's quite good at it.

Elena Malykhina, Technology Journalist

January 6, 2007

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Alex Shipp
Antivirus technologist at MessageLabs
Interview by Elena Malykhina

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Elena Malykhina

Elena Malykhina

Technology Journalist

Elena Malykhina began her career at The Wall Street Journal, and her writing has appeared in various news media outlets, including Scientific American, Newsday, and the Associated Press. For several years, she was the online editor at Brandweek and later Adweek, where she followed the world of advertising. Having earned the nickname of "gadget girl," she is excited to be writing about technology again for InformationWeek, where she worked in the past as an associate editor covering the mobile and wireless space. She now writes about the federal government and NASA’s space missions on occasion.

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