Four kids who disigned this worm/virus, which knocked down firewalls and anti virus programs, have confessed.
I can understand people want to show off their skills of programming but doing damage with it isn't right.
Four Nahariya youths in police custody have admitted to creating and spreading the computer worm "Goner" by e-mail to attack users around the world, police said yesterday. |
Police arrested the high school students, aged 15 and 16, on Friday in connection with the crime and they later admitted to concocting and spreading the worm, said Meir Zohar, the head of the police computer crime squad.
The Goner worm appears as an apparently harmless e-mail, with a subject line of "Hi" and a note asking the recipient to open an attached screen saver, which affects the computer if downloaded. The worm then spreads to all addresses in the computer's e-mail system and through the instant messaging program ICQ and Internet chat tools.
Police had been investigating the case for about a week, Zohar said. One of the youths had admitted creating the worm and the other three confessed to spreading it, he said.
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Source: JerusalemPost
