Just have to say, great photo for the article.

They do not state dead or alive... We need to know (starts loading my pistols)

great now more stay at home nerds will continue to write retarded bad code, in hopes to have a bounty on their heads.

this is too funny.....dead or alive? they state that *taking rifle out of his closet*

lololol

Wanna get rich? Say: "I did it!", go to jail for 2 years, and live off the 250K you just earned for 3 or 4 years!

Haha well if it works it works. *Takes bazooka out his closet*

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I wish people would stop linking to their personal blogs in the comments.

http://www.monkeywithswordsforhands.com

You wouldn't go to jail, you'd go to prison, and if I know anything about what it's like to be in prison, I'm pretty sure $250,000 isn't worth 2 years in there to anybody.

In the U.S., you can't profit from your crimes.

What is needed is a bounty on the developer who was responsible for the bug in the OS in the first place. It's like soaking yourself in gasoline and then complaining when someone downwind of you lights up a cigarette.

"In the U.S., you can't profit from your crimes."

Unless you are in Congress or in politics, then you can parlay not paying taxes into a position in the Obama administration. Or you could go to work for the Democratic machine in Illinois.

But for the most part, you are right

except soaking yourself in gasoline is not due to human error/ oversight. your anger towards software developers seems unfounded.

The only reason why Sven Jaschan was ever found to be the author of NetSky and Sasser is because he bragged to friends. This won't be any different if they find those responsible. So its very unlikely that the authors will ever be found unless they are complete fools.

"Some of the infected systems have been reported to be within the British and French military."

Haven't those people learned anything about security? Amazing that they still doesn't use Linux in something that is important for their countries security.

I just hope that the computers controlling their nukes don't run vista!!!

Rab1d-BDGR is this a molex to sata connector in your avatar? lol

I resent the comments jhansonxi made from the depths of my heart. As an imperfect human and developer it's impossible to write perfect code - IMPOSSIBLE. Go after the people trying to do harm and don't even mention holding the OS developers accountable you bastard. I guarantee Microsoft Windows is one complex little bit of code and I'm sure the developers try their very best.

Microsoft offering the bounty is pretty cool in my opinion. They have class, balls and the financial stability to pull it off. More of us need to stand behind Microsoft, for all the bashing they get they are a good company and have done more for computing than probably all other companies combined.

*I don't work for them and am not a fanboy despite my pro comments here.

oh my god it's the savior

Its obvious that you dont have idea how to write code,and what it means.

Jhansonxi what your saying is the person who wrote the worm did it by complete accident. . . .

No, it's more like accidentally spilling some gas on your pants while filling up your car, then getting pissed because some immature ass, with a hairspray blowtorch, decided to light you ass on fire.

You didn't intentionally get gas on yourself, but some ass not only intended to light you on fire, but did it to be malicious.

I like to see people who wrote the antivirusxxx fake spyware procecuted too.
That darn thing is so annoying.

cool i hope they can learn these worm makers that crime dousn't pay!
I hope they will send a bounty hunter to obtain the bounty. Bush his cowboy laws made it possible for bounty hunters to break in to houses cars and everything without Infringement of the law. they are even allowed to kidnap people if they dont pay there BAiL this i personaly find bounty hunters inhuman and would like to see laws changed but i live in the netherlands and we have beter human rights anyway. But for these true criminals a bountyhunter would be a good punishment maybe they should send Leonard Padilla and his partner Rob Dick on there tail.

Microsoft should hire the guy after he's caught. I bet he can help them improve code security.

either that or cut off his hands and see if he ever types again...

To ozarkamax, p05esto, 1raflo, Mike45, Tindytim:

Not only is this the fault of the engineer, it's also the fault team, management, QA, and outside security pros who supposedly review Microsoft's code.

It's obvious none of you have ever worked in a production code environment or are just shills.

The bounty is just a marketing ploy to convince the public that it's not Microsoft's fault. There's thousands of malware apps written for Windows every day. What makes this worm so important other than publicity?

Do you also think that it's the fault of the stores is a shoplifter is successful?

I'm not saying Microsoft couldn't have done better, but as someone previous posted, you can never write perfect code. They can always do better. Is this a ploy to put blame elsewhere? yes. But that doesn't change the fact that Microsoft didn't do anything intentionally or maliciously, this person did.

If the store has hundreds of thefts per year and then someone walks out with the safe under their coat then whose fault is that?

uhhhhh great idea..
but how do you know proof is proof.. that someone wrote something..
if anything is hackable.
isnt any truth changeable..

Let's add up the facts, shall we?

1. Microsoft issued a free patch in October
2. In December, the French and British military were still vulnerable
3. On Feb 6, a French nuclear sub hit a British nuclear sub.

I think we should blame the French

Let's add up the facts, shall we?

1. Microsoft issued a free patch in October
2. In December, the French and British military were still vulnerable
3. On Feb 6, a French nuclear sub hit a British nuclear sub.

I think we should blame the French