70% of all virus activity linked to one teenager

The Register (U.K.) ^ | July 31,2004 | John Leyden

[AHerald]

Thought this was gonna be about Brittany Spears.

[bejaykay]

get this kid a Kleenex!

[raptor29]

Death penalty for the little punk.

[Shaddap IV]

Wasn't there a scene in Dante's Inferno, where there were no damned souls, no devils, no nothing? Just a big mysterious empty space with nobody in it? THAT is the part of Hell set aside for writers of computer viruses.

And if they don't go to Hell, they have to wait at the vestibule in Heaven one hour for every hour they cause to be wasted getting rid of their viruses....

[martin_fierro]

[livius]

He should be torn apart and fed to the wolves.

I just spent most of a day trying to remove Sasser infections from my sister's new computer. She had not turned on the MS firewall and logged on to the Internet to get Norton, ironically, and in that brief unprotected moment, her computer virtually filled up with self-replicating virus files (which Norton for some reason was not able to remove completely). In addition, something kept trying to redirect her browser when she entered credit card numbers.

I don't care that he was only 17 - hanging is too good for him.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Some People Just Need Killing™.

[kenth]

He's the Bill Clinton of the computer world.

[muir_redwoods]

I am opposed to capital punishment with one exception. I think people who create computer viruses should be flogged to death naked with barbed wire.

And I consider myself a moderate on the question.

[EggsAckley]

Worse than that, he's the Saddam Hussein of the computer world.

[Bahbah]

I had to read for a bit before I realized that this was not some German kid responsible for alot of cases of influenza or the like. I am soooo 20th Century.

[moodyskeptic]

Let;s dream up some creative punishments for this cockroach.

I'll go first: Five years of sitting on hold with a phone taped to his head, listening to muzak and polite reminders from a recorded loop.

[Lazamataz]

70% of all virus activity linked to one teenager

This kid has a lot of sex!

[Dog Gone]

And I consider myself a moderate on the question.

You are.

[struggle]

Hes a big Michael Moore fan.

[monday]

Is that him? sheesh..he doesn't look like he can't get laid? Why else would a 17 year old waste his time writing computer virus's?

[ChefKeith]

Bring this POS PUNK over to Texas!

I have a few dozen ideas for starters:

Starving calf and no pants on this punk.

Fire ant bed w/ a drizzle of sugar water.

Strapped to a tree stump in the rut season w/ doe scent sprayed on his a$$.

I better stop before I get banned...

[Dacus943]

"spreading even if the author has been caught or realises he has done something wrong,"

Realises he has done something wrong... Give me a break!!! This lil POS knew what he was doing.

[Publius6961]

There is no way to put this delicately... Let me think.
70%?

Where is the anonymous fund that would rid us all of this particular problem and potential progeny forever? I would like to contribute.