MS put bounty on Virus writers

[megah0]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft has put a $500,000 (299,000 pounds) bounty on the heads of the writers of two computer bugs which infected more than half a million computers earlier this year.

Microsoft on Wednesday offered two $250,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the Blaster worm and Sobig e-mail virus, which disabled computers and snarled Internet traffic across the globe in August and September.

The company also said it had earmarked an additional $4.5 million (2.69 million pounds) for future rewards.

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[Swafe]

i heard this on the radio

for some reason they said 2 million tho

[Frosty]

thought they'd have a higher bounty tbh.....(i thought ms highered ppl 2 track these ppl down privatly,obviously not lol)

[shiato storm]

i always thought an obscure branch of the FBI did that sort of thing...

[ACiD303]

Microsoft on Wednesday offered two $250,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the Blaster worm and Sobig e-mail virus,

replace "arrest and conviction" with "hiring"

[schrickvr6]

yeah say hi to the new head of security

[spikegifted]

I'm just curious why no-one has sued MS for selling them mission-critical software (ie. the OS) that is full of security holes!!

[daniel_owen_uk]

Originally posted by spikegifted
I'm just curious why no-one has sued MS for selling them mission-critical software (ie. the OS) that is full of security holes!!

Because no one with mission critical operations use MS

[oddytomtom]

these people better know who there true friends are lol