Cyber experts refute claims that code is spy tool Same 'simplistic' language used in video games Suggestion that virus could have come from Israel Spyware is too big to be stealth tool say some experts

By Phil Vinter

PUBLISHED: 10:11 EST, 31 May 2012 | UPDATED: 11:04 EST, 31 May 2012

There is confusion over who developed a new computer super-virus after some programmers today reportedly said the coding was the same relatively simple language as found in video games like Angry Birds.

The suggestion contradicts theories put forward by other experts who only yesterday said the virus, known as The Flame, was so sophisticated it had to have been developed by some of the world's top brains at the U.S.'s National Security Agency.

To guard against the virus the United Nations is issuing its 'most serious warning', but now some say element of the virus - known as malware - are baffling.

Simplistic: Experts have today raised question marks over the sophistication of new computer bug Flame, saying sections of the code used to produce it are the same as that used in video games like Angry Birds

According to msnbc reporterBob Sullivan the program requires 20 megabytes - a comparably large size for a computer virus and an indicator of sluggish coding.

Furthermore unlike the computer bug Stuxnet, Flame has so far failed to make a security breach comparable to hacking into a nuclear power plant.

Most notably sections of the code were used the Lua programming language which is almost whollly used to create video games such as the hugely popular Angry Birds.

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Was flame virus written by gamers? Code similar to apps such as Angry Birds