Hi Wesker,

Social implications of viruses and general computer ethics is a very obsure topic but these should help you get a heads up on your research...

http://www.emr.org/linksUCE.html
Links - Computer Ethics

http://www.computer.org/education/cc...nal/cs280t.htm
CS280. Social and Professional Issues

http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/...revalence.html
Virus: A Retrospective - Social Impact

you might, as a side venture, look at viruses and other socially engineered problems from the perspective of copyright law...eg. do virus, worm, trojan, etc., writers have the same rights to copyright protection as with other forms of intellectual property?