TOKYO, March 21 (UPI) -- Japan's military ordered all personnel to remove the file-sharing software Winny from computers to prevent exposure of more secrets online, a report said.
The order is an effort to battle two years of damaging military and personal information that computer virus Antinny has put on the Internet.
The Japanese tradition of taking work home and doing it on personal computers has spread the digital worm -- a longstanding practice the virus is changing, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Last week, the Japanese military banned personnel from taking military data home and ordered them to remove Winny from their home computers. Now, the military says, it needs 56,000 more computers.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe also urged the public to stop using Winny.
Isamu Kaneko, the University of Tokyo professor who developed the Napster-like file-sharing Winny, said he has a patch he's trying to patent.
"If I hadn't been arrested (in May 2004), I could have dealt with it," Kaneko told the newspaper outside his trial on copyright infringement charges. "And this problem wouldn't have happened."