18 Year Old About To Be Arressted for the fuckin Virus
 

This kid needs to be made an example of

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...nternet_attack

By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer

WASHINGTON - The FBI (news - web sites) has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday.


The 18-year-old, whose name and hometown was not immediately available, was accused of writing one version of the damaging "Blaster" infection, which spread quickly across the Internet weeks ago, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.


The official asked that further identifying information about the teenager not be disclosed until his arrest.


Further details were expected to be disclosed Friday by the FBI and U.S. attorney's office in Seattle, which has been leading the investigation. A news conference was scheduled for 4:30 p.m. EDT.


A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office there, John Hartingh, said there had been "no arrest made in this matter yet." He declined to comment further.


A witness reportedly saw the teen testing the infection and called authorities, the official said.


Collectively, different versions of the virus-like worm, alternately called "LovSan" or "Blaster," snarled corporate networks worldwide, forcing Maryland's motor vehicle agency to close for one day. The infection inundated networks and frustrated home users.


Symantec Corp., a leading antivirus vendor, said the worm and its variants infected more than 500,000 computers worldwide. Experts consider it one of the worst outbreaks this year.


The "Blaster.B" version of the infection, which began spreading Aug. 13, was remarkably similar to the original Blaster worm that struck two days earlier; experts said its author made few changes, including renaming the infecting-file from "msblast" to an anatomical reference.


All the Blaster variants took advantage of a flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s flagship Windows software. Government and industry experts had anticipated such an outbreak since July 16, when Microsoft acknowledged the flaw, which affects Windows technology used to share data files across computer networks.


The infection was quickly dubbed "LovSan" because of a love note left behind on vulnerable computers: "I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!" Researchers also discovered another message hidden inside the infection that appeared to taunt Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (news - web sites): "billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!"


Infected computers were programmed to automatically launch an attack on a Web site operated by Microsoft, which the software maker easily blunted. The site, windowsupdate.com, is used to deliver repairing software patches to Microsoft customers to prevent against these types of infections.

Shit! Their on to me...I gotta get the fuck out of the country tonight!

LMAO

that kid is gonna run

Ah.. They will give him a slap on the wrist and give him a job at the FBI

well when he gets out he'll have his pick of jobs!

i could use another hacker..

Stupid prat... he coulda led a normal pimply frekled face life.. but now he's a skinny little faggot on the run ;)

heh, maybe.

I ain't skinny.

And I'll be damned if I can run.

yup and I hope he gets "hacked" to peiced, federal agents are in cars at his place lol just waiting for one confirmation from a chineese computer expert

Hope he wasn't a GFY surfer.
That would be the last thing we need :1orglaugh

fuck him up good. and they better stop referring to him as a teenager, he screwed my computer up good and 500,000 others.
There are 50 year old assholes and 18 year old assholes, treat them the same fucking way. Pussy judge is going to listen to a whole bunch of testimony what a good little nerd boy this loser has been all his life, how much potential he has, ask for leniency and he'll give it no doubt - fuck it, give him 20 years MINIMUM!

they'll put away an 18 year old black kid dealing drugs for 25 years in a maximum security pentientiary but a white suburban 18 year old nerdboy who brings half the world to its knees he'll get off with some lame sentence where he spends a few years
in some halfway house or some shit

I love these guys hehehe the internet stops today as msblaster kills everything! What a joke

you should use a mac to check your mail dumb shit. hehe

:thefinger

He's probably skipping town ...

Very very true,, a lot of Hackers work for the Computer branch outside of DC..

he he--

few criminals, not everyone who knows how to hack hurts people

why the fuck would they put this in the paper a day before they
arrest him.

article in 3 sentences:

"we found the kid that created and released the blaster worm.
we will knock out his door at 8:05:33 am on Fri Aug 29, 2003.
since this kid is a complete dumbass he will sit in his room jerking
off to porn while we arrest him (he won't bother reading
the news about this)."

what the hell are they smoking? :stoned

how about this:

they have 3 suspects, all their phone lines are tapped, they are waiting to hear some chatter tonight, hows that

Don't know why they would --

most MS coders could easily write something like that.

It's sort of like, you can drive a car right? Well, you don't go plowing into people just because you can.

What you're suggesting is that the guy who mows people down with his car, in turn gets a job at the DMV because hes so daring.

:glugglug

lol well said!

good news...hope they do make an example out of him :thumbsup

Yeah! And while you are at it fire up your Amiga and surf with that because no one writes viruses for the Amiga anymore.

You use a mac and your calling people dumb... think about that for a while.

On the contrary, Have you seen the movie Catch me if you can, Staring leonardo dicaprio and tom hanks? Its based on a true story too.

He should have spent his time making money.

i'd love to slap that kid in the teeth.

i use a mac and a pc. mac for mail though. use the right tool for the job.

who gives a FUCK if he aint even arrested yet.

What a little bad ass.

Or you could simply update your fucking windows os when they tell you to. If everyone kept their critical update notification open it would have told you back on or around July 16th to patch your shit. It was also all over the mainstream news that MS had found a hole and that it needed to be fixed. Those who chose to ignore it deserved what they got.

What about the person who wrote SoBig?