Re: 'Chernobyl' Computer Virus Author Dodges Prison

["Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>]

My how facts get skewed. :-)

This news should make Chen Ing-Hau happy. Maybe he can use it as part of his
defense... Did he ever even go to trial? He was detained about 6 years ago,
after a Taiwan resident finally launched a complaint, but I don't know what
ever happened after that.

-- Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:19 AM
Subject: [funsec] 'Chernobyl' Computer Virus Author Dodges Prison


Via PhysOrg.com (UPI).

[snip]

A Russian college student convicted of creating the Chernobyl computer virus
received a two-year suspended sentence Tuesday.

Sergei Kazachkov was found guilty of distributing computer viruses over a
pair of Web sites where more than 4,000 malicious programs were available
for copying, the Itar-Tass news service said Wednesday, citing security
forces in the city of Voronezh.

The most notorious of the viruses posted by Kazachkov was Chernobyl, which
was launched in 1999 and was blamed for damage to thousands of computers
worldwide. The Portable Executable infector targeted Windows 95 and 98 and
was capable of overwriting sectors of hard drives with random characters,
causing the computer to treat the drive as if it was empty.

The virus was programmed to deploy on April 26, the anniversary of the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.

[snip]

Here:
http://www.physorg.com/news65868120.html

- ferg

p.s. Hey, Alan -- the name 'Voronezh' brings back a few
memories, eh? :-)


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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