Comments on: Bulk of year's PC infections pinned to one man

Firm says German teen, self-confessed author of Netsky and Sasser viruses, to blame for 70 percent of infections.

Wrong Dude

The most responsible for the virus crippling PCs & costing
business millions of dollars in lost revenue & time is none other
than Citizen Gates in Medina Washington.
As long as weak, security breach laden, terrorist friendly IE / MS
Outlook & MS OS exist on millions of computers, Citizen Gates is
helping the cyber terrorist do their dirty work.
Nip it in the bud, switch OS / platforms NOW. You do not need
MS software to run a business in the Internet Age.
Why does Citizen Gates live by Lake Washington?
So he can walk on water to get home from Redmond.
Time to retire dinosaur.

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No clue

You have no clue whatsoever. Your average house has a very flimsy lock on it's door but we don't blame the lock makers for bad locks when a burgler breaks in, we blame the burgler for not respecting other people's property. After a break in we may improve the security some but a determined burgler will still be able to break in, OSes are very similar. Don't let your juvenile dislike of Gates keep you from seeing who's really to blame.

Prison term should substantial

Courts should sentence virus writers and hackers like the criminals they are. If someone stole a billion dollars or caused a billion dollars in property damage they would get a very long prison term. I believe there is no difference here. Lost money is lost money. Maybe if other would-be virus writers hear about Sven whining from prison about how terrible his existence is there and how his life is ruined by spending such a significant portion of it in prison, then it will make them think twice about creating viruses. And don?t try to use the excuse that he had no idea of the amount of damage that it would cause. If someone burnt down an entire block of houses when they ?only? meant to burn down one house I don?t think a court would show much sympathy for that. Virus writers are playing with fire and they know it. Law abiding citizens don?t break into businesses, rob banks, or build bombs just to see of they can do it. People who do those things are criminals, and virus writers and hackers should be sentenced accordingly.

I'd like five minutes alone with this guy

Maybe then he'd fix my computer

Get a clue, Dude...

Of course all hackers & virus writers should be severly
punished...DUH. JUVENILE approach is to think that a simple
door lock is the same thing as a complex OS that guards
businesses, bank vaults & military vessals. MS should KNOW how
to safe guard their product before selling to businesses & the
government. Since they obviouslty do not, CEO should be held
accountable for aiding the cyber terrorist. Car munufacturers are
responsible for creating unsafe cars, MS monopoly gives them
license to rob & cripple computers...? Get real...

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umm

car manufactures are not responsible for what unsafe things people do with their cars though.

Hacker

Somebody with the intelligence and knowhow to create these viruses could earn a very good pay with their computer skills. He may get jail time,certainly a bad record and probably not allowed to use a computer.No values,no morals,no common sense.A childhood prank in an adult world. we need to have morals in the public schools.Probably he should have been spanked once for bad behaviour.

18 year old kid

Hey MS cut your di** off. This kid f***ed up your billion dollar
systm. You are a**holes. You do not deserve what you have.
You should kill yourself.