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Saturday, May 08, 2004
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Suspected Sasser worm writer arrested in Germany
18-year-old man arrested by police in Lower Saxony.
From Reuters, "A spokesman for Lower Saxony police said the man was arrested on Friday. No other details were available. Sasser, a tenacious computer worm, is expected to infect millions of machines before it runs its course. Since appearing at the weekend, it has wreaked havoc on personal computers running on the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows 2000, NT and XP operating systems, but is expected to slow down as computer users download anti-virus patches."
Continuing, "It was the lure of cash that proved the man's undoing. A group of individuals from Lower Saxony approached Microsoft on Wednesday inquiring about reward money should they turn in the man."
Posted by Al on 05/08 at 09:56 AM
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