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#1 User is offline   Redhatcc 

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Posted 14 February 2009 - 06:20 PM

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000...39616084,00.htm

Seems to be Microsoft has a $250,000 reward for the link and arrest of the person(s) that wrote this virus... he had better skip country haha

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Posted 17 February 2009 - 03:08 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be a professional job. I also bet it comes from western Europe, only because the first known infection (reported on Panda I think) was in France.

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Posted 17 February 2009 - 04:17 PM

i had read about it a bit back... seem to have spread pretty fast. a few people on here had that problem and some IT guys i know so :/

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