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Reward for Virus

It's interesting that SCO and Microsoft are offering rewards for the author of MyDoom.

I propose an alternative. How about we raise a $250,000 reward for the arrest of the author of the hole?

Of course, a new idea to disguise the worm would be e-mails like, "Hello, I'm a computer security expert currently trying to track down the origin of the MyDoom virus. I have so far traced it back to your machine, with a timestamp that marks it as one of the earlier infected hosts. My team and I are very close to finding the author, and would be willing to share 10% of the current reward fee (which is $500,000US) if you helped us. Please click on the attached program, which will forward the log files from your e-mail client to us so that we can analyze your logs."

But don't let that give you any ideas...