18-year old admits to creating the worm
Published on May 8, 2004 By Larry Kuperman In Current Events
The 18-year old suspected of creating the Sasser internet worm has confessed.

A high-school student from the village of Waffensen in Germany has confessed that he was the one that created the latest, destructive internet worm. The Sasser worm differs from previous versions, such as Netsky and Bagel, in that you don't have to double-click on an attachment to become infected.

The damage done already is incalcuable. Hospitals in Hong Kong were hit, airline flights delayed.

If you think that you might be infected or haven't been running Windows updates, you should visit http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp immediately.

Every person that is on the Internet or that receives email, needs to have an anti-virus program and a firewall. If you don't, you are endangering yourself and others.

Comments
on May 08, 2004

An 18 year old kid?  What a difference he/she could make in the world if he/she put their talents toward good rather than toward wanton distruction!


Thanks for the scoop!

on May 09, 2004
Did'nt realise that this was a variant, where you didn't have to double-click the attachment....

But I do bounce any mail I don't recognise, at the sever, before it gets anywhere near my comp.

Thanks for the heads up, Larry.....

I'm off to microsoft update

Wreckless.
on May 09, 2004
Thank you so much for posting this. I keep getting notices about updating, but am busy and click on that notify me later thing!