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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: hismajesty on May 09, 2004, 09:06 AM

Title: Sasser Programmer Arrested
Post by: hismajesty on May 09, 2004, 09:06 AM
Turns himself in to German Police (http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=4217/)
Title: Re:Sasser Programmer Arrested
Post by: Archonist on May 09, 2004, 09:10 AM
Yeah, the author of phatbot was also arrested. His dev team wasn't arrested though, and theres new versions of phatbot out.
Title: Re:Sasser Programmer Arrested
Post by: Newby on May 09, 2004, 09:34 AM
Speaking of PhatBot, someone in my family downloaded it as there is tons of traffic on port 65506. :(
Title: Re:Sasser Programmer Arrested
Post by: iago on May 09, 2004, 10:17 AM
"experts at Microsoft" - *finds oxymoron thread*

But they make it seem like worms are such a bad thing.  In my opinion, worms are great!  If it wasn't for Sasser, there would be millions of unpatched computers (because as long as nothing is going wrong, why bother updating?) which would allow crackers to compromise their documents/etc. for malicious purposes.  At least the only things that worms like Sasser so is spread themselves.
Title: Re:Sasser Programmer Arrested
Post by: hismajesty on May 09, 2004, 10:30 AM
Quote"experts at Microsoft" - *finds oxymoron thread*

haha, when I read that I thought the same thing.
Title: Re:Sasser Programmer Arrested
Post by: Banana fanna fo fanna on May 09, 2004, 02:47 PM
those bastards.
Title: Re:Sasser Programmer Arrested
Post by: Falcon[anti-yL] on May 09, 2004, 03:16 PM
Why do some people never bother updating their antivirus?