Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward for Conficker Worm Author(s)

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[JoeProBono]

Microsoft Corp. today said it is offering a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for launching the "Conficker" computer worm, a threat that has infected millions of Microsoft Windows PCs over the past two months. The reward is the most public acknowledgment yet of the damage inflicted by the Conficker worm - known to some anti-virus companies as "Downadup" -- which wiggles into Microsoft systems primarily through a security hole in the Windows operating system.

[JoeProBono]

[Jet Jaguar]

They should start with the McAfee employees.

[Porterville]

I wish I knew... 250 grand would come in handy

[MediaMole]

Conficker uses a security flaw MS fixed in October.

My sympathy for those infected is quite limited.

[familyop]

What if it was done under the order of a high ranking communist government official with one of our trading partners?

[JoeProBono]

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[JoeProBono]

[This_far]

$250,000

WELL, they certainly are serious about this aren’t they.

(bet they spent more than that coming up with a committee name)

[ShadowAce]

[Tribune7]

The man to hunt down the worm.

[JoeProBono]