The young creator of the 'Blaster' virus is sent to prison for a year and a half

Hello(s), All...! === Cut === The young creator of the Blaster virus is sent to prison for a year and a half 01/29/2005, 09:44:40 Jeffrey Lee, 19, was sentenced Friday in Seattle District Court. Parson (Jeffrey Lee Parson) sentenced to imprisonment for a period of one and a half years for the creation and distribution of the version Blaster worm virus, reports Reuters. The teenager previously pleaded guilty to distributing the Blaster worm virus, which infected more than 48 thousand last year computers around the world and the attacked corporate server Microsoft. Judge Marsha Pechman decided not to apply the creator of the virus receives maximum punishment. The teenager was threatened with 18 to 37 months in prison and a fine of up to several hundred thousand dollars. However, the judge concluded that Parson's crime partly due to “bad upbringing and insufficient in spite." During court hearings, Parson admitted that he created "B", or "teekids" variant of the Blaster virus and used it to access to fifty computers through which the worm struck further more than 48 thousand computers. Virus code Blaster and its variants allow him to independently multiply and spread through “holes” in protection Windows operating system installed at 90 percentpersonal computers in the world. URL: http://lenta.ru/internet/2005/01/29/blaster/ since 2004 Lenta.ru === Cut === By the way, in the Microsoft Download Center for the first time current updates (from 10-12 January) overtook patches from Blaster and Sasser in popularity. Looks like People all over the world have finally gotten patched. With the best - Wlodek # wlblack(@)newmail.ru # http://wlodeks.narod.ru [ZX] [500:95/462@ZXNet] [2:5016 Forever] [Golyanovo] [Old Russians]