I must talk about this:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1234663,00.asp
"Parson is being charged with modifying the original "Blaster" or "LovSan" virus and releasing it on the Internet, infecting at least 7,000 PCs and using them as "drones" to mount a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to the complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's office. Antivirus vendor Symantec Corp. said the worm infected over 500,000 machines, which were programmed to attack Microsoft's WindowsUpdate.com web site, which Microsoft redirected in a successful bid to avoid the worm. "
This person is responsible for 1.4% of the infected computers. OK - where is the jerk who wrote the original virus? Why is this one guy being played up so much? He is a moronic child, and should have been caught - but the fact that the original blaster writer remains free is a testament to the Feebies inability to get to an intelligent criminal. How about the sobig virus writer? (S)He has released several different versions of a virus and hasn't been caught.
I guess what I'm trying to say is : "Good job - now catch the real bad-guy. And don't break your arm patting yourself on the back for catching an idiot who is probably continually surprised by the sunrise and needs help tying his shoes."
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