German authorities arrest teenager over "sasser" virus.

[Mr Webname]

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2895783

 

[cyphix]

Sweet! Hope he gets what he deserves! :-D

 

[hotdog_pk]

saw this on national news.

which virus was it?
I have seen about three in the pas week... one affecting my entire college network.
the picture on the news looked like the w32/Blaster virus.

 

[Mr Webname]

"sasser" virus is not distributed by email but via networks and home pc's etc without sufficient firewall protection - amazing how many major setups have been shown to be out of touch with Internet Security!

 

[bidawinner]

It seems like it's always kids.. I'm not sure what the solution is ..just glad they caught him

 

[NameTower]

maybe they can use him to help find holes in windows?

hopefully its the right guy.

 

[hotdog_pk]

he admitted to it.

a governent will probably end up using him to find such holes, im sure they have done it before.

 

[ToastyX]

Sweet! Hope he gets what he deserves! :-D

I wish Microsoft would get what they deserve. Instead of wasting time going after kids, they should go after the root of the problem. The problem is, the general public doesn't realize what the root of the problem is. They believe this BS is just a normal part of computing, when in fact, it shouldn't even be possible. Microsoft made this BS possible, but the general public doesn't realize that. That's why they want to go after the kids instead of going after Microsoft to fix the root of the problem once and for all.

The solution is very simple. All Microsoft has to do is make Windows not run any remotely-accessible services by default. Then worms like Blaster and Sasser wouldn't be very effective since most users wouldn't be affected by them. I think it's very idiotic that Windows runs remotely-accessible services by default, especially when they've been proven to be vulnerable several times in the past. There is no need for most users to be running these services. How many worms is it going to take for Microsoft to learn their lesson?

 

[FMS]

Watched a bit of this on the news and they showed all kinds of cable lines going into the kids house. Not sure why he needed more than one line to do his works but there were more than a few being fed into that house.

What will they do with him? Hire him or recruit him for our NSA...