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  • Microsoft sets up virus-hunting fund

    Microsoft will work with law enforcement to track down writers of worms, viruses and other malicious code, and is ponying up US$5 million to fund the search.

  • Sasser author gets suspended sentence

    A German judge on Friday handed down a suspended sentence of one year and nine months to the teenager who admitted he created last year's Sasser computer worm.

  • Can Microsoft's virus bounty fight organised crime?

    Microsoft is claiming that its US$250,000 reward was responsible for the Sasser author's arrest, but experts say money alone will not stop the virus and spam problem.

  • Microsoft: Separate trail led to second virus writer

    Microsoft confirmed on Monday that German authorities had arrested a man suspected of writing and releasing a program widely used to surreptitiously control computers on the Internet.

  • Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author

    Microsoft's US$5 million fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks has snagged its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser worm, the software giant said Saturday.

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