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IRL Name: 
Friðrik Skúlason
Biography: 

Friðrik Skúlason is the founder of FRISK Software International, an Icelandic software company that develops F-Prot antivirus and F-Prot AVES antivirus and antispam service. He is also one of the founding members of CARO (Computer Antivirus Research Organization). He originally developed F-Prot AntiVirus while doing computer support work.

Facts

The name FRISK Software International is derived from the initial letters of the personal name and patronymic of Friðrik Skúlason.

He was, for many years, the technical editor of the Virus Bulletin.

He was the one who discovered Ghostball, the first multipartite virus.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Virus#1987

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_Sk%C3%BAlason