Video is hacked MPEG-4 but the author also included MP3 compression for sound, and now it also includes WMA audio compression. So.. compare this to AFS.
You get:
superb quality
STEREO 96kbit/s - 312kbit/s sound
at 10:1 size compared to DVD.
This is truly the most innovative (heh) format around. The DivX;-) url is http://divx.ctw.cc
Someone writes a nasty virus, but doesn't spread it, i.e just for fun, showing coding skills etc etc, and contributes it to the open source community or to virus collectors or something like that.
Another evil person gets an idea, he is going to start an epidemy, copies 100% of the code and "kind" enough to leave the original author credits for it;\
Maybe the first author never intended to do any harm, only explore security holes and code for fun.
Is the possession/authoring of virus code itself illegal or only the effects it can cause?
If someone writes a virus, which doens't manage to spread or do any harm, could he be prosecuted for that, writing malicios code. You see, an open source fdisk command can be malicious too. And what if that someone has access to that code...
So IMHO the one that spread this virus with intention to start an epidemic, is the one responsible not the one that wrote it.
If you got HIV, and spread it you are breaking the law, but you don't have to be executed or isolated just because you carry it.
Never say never, the security hole (no prompting, now patched?) in IE5 used by this worm will infect even if you don't run the attachment.. actually there IS no attachment. Viewing the e-mail is all you need to get stung.
Imagine what a variant of this worm could have done.. the author posted the virus directly to anti-virus vendors, so M$ found out about the security hole the easy way.
Slashdot Mirror
What about movies sold over the net?
Or when online music selling really shoots off, music videos.
And what about having several movies on one DVD?
BTW it's called DivX ;-) ;-) is there? ;-)
Wonder why that
You get:
superb quality
STEREO 96kbit/s - 312kbit/s sound
at 10:1 size compared to DVD.
This is truly the most innovative (heh) format around. The DivX ;-) url is http://divx.ctw.cc
Another evil person gets an idea, he is going to start an epidemy, copies 100% of the code and "kind" enough to leave the original author credits for it ;\
Maybe the first author never intended to do any harm, only explore security holes and code for fun.
Is the possession/authoring of virus code itself illegal or only the effects it can cause?
If someone writes a virus, which doens't manage to spread or do any harm, could he be prosecuted for that, writing malicios code. You see, an open source fdisk command can be malicious too. And what if that someone has access to that code...
So IMHO the one that spread this virus with intention to start an epidemic, is the one responsible not the one that wrote it.
If you got HIV, and spread it you are breaking the law, but you don't have to be executed or isolated just because you carry it.
The other Swede that helped track down Melissa author, disagrees and says it is actually the Philippinian man that is the author.
http://www.symantec.com /avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bubbleboy.html
Imagine what a variant of this worm could have done.. the author posted the virus directly to anti-virus vendors, so M$ found out about the security hole the easy way.