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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. The Sobig Author Is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Andrew Tanenbaum. He's also known for a little discussion with someone named Linus Torvalds.

  2. motivation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The odd thing about this was that his motivations weren't fame or the desire to send spam - he was a Linux zealot hell-bent on destroying Windows. This kind of jihadist attitude is becoming far too common in the Linux community.

  3. yes they are gmail invites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just clicked one of the URLs and signed up for a gmail account.. are you sure?

  4. FAILBZORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fact came into Deeper into the all along. *BSD of the above and, after initial 40,000 coming BSD had become lube or we sell Dicks produced suucesses with the everyday...We WORSE AND WORSE. AS

  5. Stop trolling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Explain to me how I signed up for a gmail account with one of those links then.

    1. Re:Stop trolling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      hey you fuck off you pretentious asshole

      is it out of the realm of possibilities that it could have been a bait and switch URL? it probably started as a gmail invite then it went to goatse or whatever it was that you got.

      why don't you get your own facts straight before you tell people to fuck off.. idiot

  6. Copyright by igny · · Score: -1, Troll

    Copyright 2003-2004 Authors.

    --
    In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
  7. His phone and address by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Who-is info of his domain:
    SEND-SAFE.COM

    Ibragimov Ruslan
    12 Krasnokazarmennaya
    111250
    Moscow, Russia
    +7.957235641
    ssdomain@rambler.ru

    Anybody willing to ask him whether he actually wrote that ? :-)