ANTI- VIRUS DECLARATION

Computer viruses represent great danger and malpractice - they are antipodes of what we want to achieve working on the Net and craving towards the Internet with more humane character. Their negative energy destroys creative work, invades our privacy, destroys our private and public propriety. Viruses do those things on purpose, willfully and with criminal intentions. In other words, viruses represent Internet terrorism. If we consider them terrorist acts, we will fully understand the evil we deal with and how necessary it is to unite all positive forces to prevent virus creators in their terrorist acts.

The Declaration obliges us to prevent anyone from spreading this evil via the Internet and we promise to do everything in our power to stop this harmful practice.

We appeal to all world states and governments to penalize most severely those who purposefully generate and spread computer viruses.

We demand that relevant international institutions do all there is in their power to oblige states-members of the Coalition to strictly punish virus creators.

We insist that every company and/ or businessperson providing Internet services provides maximum protection for Internet users from receiving virus-infected files. Every server which allows mass spreading of viruses, i.e. a server which had not provided sufficient protection for its users, should lose its work permit.

Every anti-virus software programmer can get his/ her own free presentation provided that he/ she allows significant discount for purchasing anti- virus software to all signers of this declaration.

Every signer of this declaration should install mail badge on a prominent place of his/her site and the badge should be linked to http://www.royal-awards-university.org/avc/

This practically means that the badge is not installed only in the awards program, but that it is installed on the most visited part of the site.

Every signer of the Declaration who is familiar with sites offering free of charge virus cleaning is obliged to inform us about the link in question and we will publish its address for free.

Every signer of the Declaration who comes across a site suspected to be spreading computer viruses on purpose is obliged to inform relevant authorities, the server of the site in question and of course, Anti Virus Coalition. Each site which intentionally spreads viruses will be blacklisted and all members of ANTI VIRUS COALITION (signers of this Declaration) are obliged to inform proper authorities of the state where the server in question is located, thus preventing negative influence of virus activities on the Net.

If viruses are generated from a particular site, it does not automatically have to mean that the site owner is intentionally spreading them. He/she might be a victim of somebody else�s attack, not even being aware of it. Therefore, it is necessary to inform the site owner that the site spreads viruses and that the owner must stop the process immediately. If the site owner refuses to clean his/her site, according to the Declaration, he/she will be treated as a person who is intentionally harming everybody else and we will do all there is to prevent his/her activities.

A growing number of viruses are spreading via e-mail in a very cunning way. What happens most often is that the attackers use somebody else�s e-mail address to send viruses to targeted addresses, so the addresses viruses are sent from are not the same as the address we identify in the e-mail we receive. This is the fault of the server we use because it did not provide sufficient protection. In those cases, we should seriously warn the server in question that it does not fulfill its obligations to its users and ,if such practice continues, the server is in danger of losing its work license.

Members of Anti Virus Coalition can be individuals and/ or organizations who/ which have sites on the Net. These sites have to be family-friendly and be labeled as child safe. Also, sites which promote violence, pornography, hatred, racial, religious, national or any other kind of intolerance ,as well as sites which are offensive in any way, cannot be members of Anti Virus Coalition.

This Declaration appeals to ministries of justice, information and telecommunication as well as other government organizations of all countries to support this noble mission. In accordance with this policy, the Declaration will be sent for adoption to all government, non-government and other international organizations.

Signers of the Declaration agree that the Declaration should be extended and adjusted to leading world legal standards. In order to do so, government and non-government organizations can provide enormous help and they are all asked to give their contribution in improving the Declaration and production of efficient instruments for the fight against virus terrorism.

National, state and international legal associations hereby are called to give their contribution to improvement or this Declaration and to creation of efficient instruments of battle against virus terrorism.

Having in mind that Internet viruses seriously endanger human rights and freedoms, we hereby invite all national, state and international human rights and freedom organizations to give their contribution to improvement of this Declaration and its efficiency.

The names of all national, state and international organizations which provide help in this mission will be published on a special list with their Internet addresses.

All members of the Coalition are obliged to inform their country�s relevant ministry, ministers, governors, prime ministers and/or presidents as well as non-government organizations and to demand from these institutions to join the Coalition. We expect that they will give their own contribution to the improvement of the Declaration and operative work on prevention of virus spreading on the Net.

This Declaration is public propriety and can be published on sites of any interested parties.