“Apparently I’m sending out viruses without knowing it,” said Brianne C. Janacek ’07, whose computer was infected with MyDoom after she downloaded an attachment from the Texas Club e-mail list.

E-mail users across the globe continue to receive virus-infected messages, usually with the subject line “test.”

Janacek said she received one MyDoom e-mail from a list for incoming first-years at Tufts, a university to which she never applied.

The nearly 100-person audience at the HLS event, which was sponsored by the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, remained civil throughout McBride’s presentation and the question-and-answer session which followed. But the audience’s general disapproval was clear.

“Outside of your individual rights and capitalistic notions, how do you justify your actions are promoting science?” one attendee asked.

“Society and individual rights are what have to be balanced, and that’s what happens in the court system everyday,” SCO Senior Vice President Chris Sontag responded.

On Sunday, after someone posted McBride’s home phone number on the Web, the onslaught against SCO moved to the phone lines as well.

“Right when I’m trying to enjoy the Super Bowl, the phone was ringing off the hook,” McBride said.

—Staff writer Zachary M. Seward can be reached at seward@fas.harvard.edu.