[Kamikaze]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62459-2003Aug28?language=printer

One more moron script-kiddy shot down! w00t

[Ashrak]

i liked that viruz

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62459-2003Aug28?language=printer

One more moron script-kiddy shot down! w00t

will they burn him at the stake too?

[Fury]

Originally posted by Ashrak
i liked that viruz

I didn't. We had hard time at product support because of that worm.

[Hippo]

they should

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


We should use razor wire as the string [to string him up by his nuts]. Then we tie him to a tree and sic flesh-eating botflies and pissed-off hornets on him (please make sure the person who introduces the insects is wearing a bee suit). Then when he's close to death we force-feed him hot grease from a deep fryer and leave him for dead.

[Stealth]

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: "billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!"

that's awesome

[Deepblue]

I thought he only modified the worm to make it nastier. They still havn't nabbed the original creator (not sure).

[Solatar]

Meh, anything that attacks microsoft is a good thing in my book.

Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly did it DO to the victims computer?

[Fury]

Originally posted by Solatar
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly did it DO to the victims computer?

It wasn't supposed to do anything more than find a vulnerable computer on the net, then infect that computer. Then it was supposed to create a backport and listen there and wait for specified time to DoS WindowsUpdate website. Creator of the worm made several mistakes though, first he didn't use the correct WinUpd address, and MS easily repelled the attack by disabling forwarding. Then there was a serious bug in the worm which caused RPC service to shut down, since W2k/XP cannot work properly without this service, the system would reboot, although only XP informed an user of this.

Thanks to the bug, infected XP computers were easily found and patched up. W2k system were little trickier since those didn't inform user of any service instabilities.

So in the end it ended up to be a nice plan but implementation sucked. All it did was caused a major headaches to technical support teams all over the world.

If I recalled wrong some parts, I am sure someone will correct me.

[Grey Wolf]

IIRC, he also had the bug report back to his website. That was registered in his name and adress. Not very bright, was he?

[Taristin]

There was a pic of him on the cover of the daily post... Lemme see... Nads... can't find it, but man was he fat... (no offense to you fat guys, but he was like 500 lbs =-/  Looks like he never left his computer chair)

[Charlotte]

Yeah, he was just plain fat and ugly.

[Fury]

I believe you are mistaken, the orignal MSBlast creator has not been caught yet. The boy who was caught created one of the MSBlast variants, not the original.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Charlotte
Yeah, he was just plain fat and ugly.

Would you be the 'Other Woman' Tiara was talking of bringing in? (obvious question)

Where's your weapon?

[Hippo]

i just saw his picture...

they sure he was 18???

[pyro-manic]

Drown him in Red Bull and take-away pizza. He obviously lived by them, so he should die by them....

Sorry, that's really not very nice at all,  but people who do this kind of stuff really piss me off. Can't they find something decent/heplful/productive/useful to do with their lives, rather than writing tiny bits of code just to screw up somebody's day?

Sorry. Rather annoyed with humanity in general at the moment...

[Hippo]

Originally posted by pyro-manic

Sorry. Rather annoyed with humanity in general at the moment...

Join the club.

[Stryke 9]

How romantic a message. I can just imagine the scene...

San: "Oh, Dweeby McDweeberson! I never knew your true feelings, until you sent out a malicious worm that trashed millions of retards' computers for no good reason! Of course I'll let you bone me, you magnificent h@xx0r you! Oh, except they don't allow conjugal visits at the state pen! Guess I'll have to go out with that football jock instead! But don't worry, you'll get plenty- you're sharing a cell with Big Bill the Serial Cat Rapist!"