Will Botong Pinoy be affected by computer virus or computer worms?
A computer virus or computer worm is a malicious program created by programmers in order to take advantage of security holes in a system. In order to be able to exploit the weaknesses, the programmers will need to have prior knowledge on the software-knowledge in terms of what programming language the software is written on, the actual program code etc. Botong Pinoys program code will not be published. The Botong Pinoy software will not be deployed until a few months prior to election. Therefore, programmers will have very little chance in creating malicious codes for it. If somehow a virus is able to be copied into the system, Botong Pinoy will still be safe because the only thing that will be executed during voting day will be the program and nothing else.