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Microsoft Announces $250.000 Bounty For The Conficker Worm Creator foxnews released 1 hour ago. That is a lot of money

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News Title: Microsoft announces $250.000 bounty for the Conficker worm creator

Conficker worm: Terrible worm (kind of virus) released recently, this one is really nasty!

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/02/16/microsoft-posts-250000-reward-for-pc-hackers.html


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Well, 250 thousand dollars is just what i need to by the lanborgini that i have been wanted for so many years, but for that, i need to find information that leads to the appreation of the conficker worm, and by judging the worm programming knowledge/quality/expertise, that is going to be extremely difficult, and there may be more people better informed then i.

Strange that microsoft is spending so much money to catch a worm creator, even this one which may have caused millions of dollars of costs to microsoft worldwide, nonetheless, i feel that is something going on other then that, i don't know, i will check htis all out that is for sure.

What about you, what do you think of all of this? Did the conficker worm make any costs/damage to your computer/network?
What do you think about this bounty? Is it a fair value, the 250.000, or it should be more?

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Read this too:

Known as the Conficker (a pun on "configure" and a four-letter German swear word) or Downadup worm , the virus has infected at least 10 million Windows-based computers since it first appeared in October. It's forced the British and French navies to take some systems offline.
Most worrisome is the fact that it doesn't do much — yet. Experts fear it's just waiting for a command to turn all infected machines into a superpowerful "botnet" of zombie PCs that could be used to take down commercial, military or governmental Web sites.


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Can't seem to Merge this with another topic, so Closed it instead.Maybe someone else can try it???Thanks.

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