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So, Who Wrote Sobig?

Posted by Hemos on from the i'm-SO-BIG dept.

An anonymous reader writes "F-Secure's Virus Blog posted links to a 48-page technical study on who wrote the infamous Sobig worm which went around the world last year. The study is done by anonymous authors. The study concludes that author of this worm is a Russian programmer and goes out all the way to name him. This file has now been posted publicly but on Geocities and and Tripod. So you can have a look by yourself and make your own conclusions."

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  1. "Who Wrote Sobig" by Anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not me.

    1. Re:"Who Wrote Sobig" by Anonymous by TykeClone · · Score: 4, Funny

      Anyone who has kids knows that the first person that says "Not me" is guilty :)

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  2. Great Geocities Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What do they have 10MB of transfer a day?

  3. Geocities? Tripod? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...now been posted publicly but on Geocities and and Tripod. So you can have a look...

    Ummm, you realize that you're telling the entire /. community that they should look at Geocities and Tripod accounts, right? This should last, oh, about 5 seconds.

  4. Heh... by Blue-Footed+Boobie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kinda funny how the BSD devil up on the /. bar is looking at the worm...maybe he fears retribution?

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  5. Re:Mirror! by Meostro · · Score: 4, Funny


    i'm a whore with a website: NSFW mirror here...

    yes, this is real. NSFW keeps bandwidth down.

  6. You forgot... by twoslice · · Score: 2, Funny
    about 5 seconds.

    to add the word milli after the five....

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  7. In Related Links ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Best deals: Worms

  8. Re:motivation by Trigun · · Score: 2, Funny

    if they are that dedicated to the open source initiative, shouldn't they spend that time improving linux rather than writing viruses?

    Or, at the very least, release the source code under the GPL?

  9. Another one.. distribute the /. effect.. ? by vluther · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://mirrors.linuxpowered.com/WhoWroteSobig.pdf

  10. "author of this worm is a Russian programmer" by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Russia... oh, nevermind.

  11. Re:incase you cant get the article.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks! We didn't need to review any of the "evidence" and discuss their merits and authenticity. We just needed the bastard's name so we can hunt him down and stone him. Let's go folks! It's time to rid the world of this heathen!

  12. Just... by grasshoppa · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...tell me what address to mail this...um...strangly ticking package to.

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  13. Re:Good American Programmers? by Mercano · · Score: 2, Funny
    There never seems to be any good American programmers who write malicious code and viruses like this.

    It all got outsourced to Asia.

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  14. Re:The reports seems biased by JudgeFurious · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have IT skills and have posted to newsgroups since 1996?

    We'd like to arrange a meeting with you to discuss some "things"...

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  15. I'm waiting by hchaos · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for the study on who wrote the technical study on who wrote the infamous Sobig worm.

  16. One question by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have only one question for virus writers:

    Has anyone ever gotten laid for writing a virus?

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    1. Re:One question by kisielk · · Score: 2, Funny

      I doubt it. But I hear you can get viruses from getting laid...

  17. That's not the half of it... by Xenographic · · Score: 3, Funny

    We have what's described as an anonymous article, based apparently on pure speculation, on a free webhost, that purports to identify a virus author that, SFAIK, has not yet been arrested?

    Impressive. I can't believe Slashdot got such a big scoop on this one ;-]

  18. Re:Mirror! by The+Fanta+Menace · · Score: 2, Funny

    hmm, dunno about that. I clicked on it because of the NSFW message...

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