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The whole story from CNET:

<URL:http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5071030.html>

and from the antivirus company's website:

<URL:http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/presscenter.php?menu_id=23&n_id=41>

While these are great news, I'd also like to read about the arrest of the
creator of the original Blaster. Wouldn't you ?

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On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:27:53 +0300, toro <> wrote:

>While these are great news, I'd also like to read about the arrest of the
>creator of the original Blaster. Wouldn't you ?


Somehow, I don't think he is quite as stupid as those copying the worm
and creating the varients.

W.S. Blevins

PGP Public Key ID: 0xC780309A

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:27:53 +0300, toro <> wrote:

>The whole story from CNET:
>
><URL:http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5071030.html>

************************************************** ********************
MSBlast suspect faces 15 years

"Among the programmers in our company, I have been confronted by a
wave of sympathy for him. They want to know why we identified him and
gave him up to the police," Mihai Radu, a spokesman for BitDefender,
said.
************************************************** *******************
Seems the av programmers have a screw loose just as badly as the
offender.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:45:46 GMT, wrote:

>On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:27:53 +0300, toro <> wrote:
>
>>The whole story from CNET:
>>
>><URL:http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5071030.html>
>
>************************************************* *********************
>MSBlast suspect faces 15 years
>
>"Among the programmers in our company, I have been confronted by a
>wave of sympathy for him. They want to know why we identified him and
>gave him up to the police," Mihai Radu, a spokesman for BitDefender,
>said.
>************************************************* ********************
>Seems the av programmers have a screw loose just as badly as the
>offender.
>
>
>Art
>http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

Makes you wonder how they spend their free time.

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:45:46 GMT, wrote:

>MSBlast suspect faces 15 years
>
>"Among the programmers in our company, I have been confronted by a
>wave of sympathy for him. They want to know why we identified him and
>gave him up to the police," Mihai Radu, a spokesman for BitDefender,
>said.
>************************************************* ********************
>Seems the av programmers have a screw loose just as badly as the
>offender.


That should paint a pretty clear picture of which product NOT to
purchase.

W.S. Blevins

PGP Public Key ID: 0xC780309A