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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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 Posted - 08 May 2004 : 21:05:39
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An 18 year old German student has been arrested for creating the Sasser virus. According to the news on TV he's "extremely intelligent", but the police found the computer he created the virus on in his room... I don't know, but someone intelligent would've made sure nothing incriminating could be found on the PC used to create a virus on.
See http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/08/sasser.arrest.ap/index.html for more info |
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redbrad0
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 11 May 2004 : 14:45:08
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| Haha, he was probably looking to get caught just because he wanted the publicity. |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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stuF
Average Member
United Kingdom
561 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2004 : 16:05:33
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| too right, i got my b/band fitted this week on my computer, which hadnt been online for an age, therefore was open to viruses, it took literally 12 minutes before this and a shackle of others were shreading my machine up! ended up formatting and starting again! |
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chumbawumba
Junior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 May 2004 : 10:46:13
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| Were people using the built-in winxp firewall protected against sasser ? I use a 3rd party firewall and had no problems. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 May 2004 : 11:01:22
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Originally posted by Roland
I don't know, but someone intelligent would've made sure nothing incriminating could be found on the PC used to create a virus on.
someone who was intelligent wouldn't create the virus in the first place. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 12 May 2004 : 11:22:40
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Originally posted by HuwR
someone who was intelligent wouldn't create the virus in the first place.
Aren't you equating intelligence with some sense of morality, Huw? After all "intelligent" people also put developed poision gas, nuclear weapons, machine guns, etc.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 May 2004 : 11:52:36
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| No not at all, morality has nothing to do with creating the things, only the reasoning behind your deploying them requires a sense of morality, plus it doesn't require a high degree of intelligence to create a virus or worm, in coding terms they are very simple, I have written a few myself in the past, but obviously never let them get out. |
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Steve D.
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