Of all the lame brained moronic reasons to write a virus. To dispell the myth that only men write viruses. Good Lord if you are depressed by the lack of women in IT, then get the hell out there get a job in IT, and prove you can do the work. At least after she wrote it she did the right thing and turned it in to a anti-virus vendor straight away. Thereby letting them patch it before it actually got loose and started spreading in the wild.