"Botmaster" gets nearly five years in prison

A 20-year-old who prosecutors say highjacked computers to damage computer networks and send waves of spam across the Internet was sentenced on Monday to nearly five years in prison. Jeanson James Ancheta, a well-known member of the "Botmaster Underground" who pleaded guilty in January to federal charges of conspiracy, fraud and damaging U.S. government computers, was given the longest sentence for spreading computer viruses, federal prosecutors said.

He was sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner, who also ordered him to pay $15,000 in restitution to the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, and forfeit to the government some $60,000 in illicit gains.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060509/wr_nm/crime_botmaster_dc_1

And he deserves it. People like that are scum. 80% of my email is spam and the internet is groaning with the number of messages it has to move. Just think how much better (faster) it would work without all that spam.

I agree fantailedalbi. People like that are the number one problem with networks today. They cause damage and lost revenue to people and company's they have no association with or malice towards becouse their crap just speads through networks like wildfire.

5 Years is a very fair sentence MM, perhaps if more were jailed the garbage may slow down. Although people like that do put money in my pockets. I guess someone has to clean up their messes.

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OMFG , I just stumbled upon this and its kinda old [ Thu Apr 27, 10:00 AM ET ]but Jeez , glad this never took off!!!!!


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Trojan Freezes Computer, Demands Ransom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through the Western Union Holdings money transfer service.

A sample of the Trojan horse virus was sent to Sophos, a security vendor, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant. The malware, which Sophos named Troj/Ransom-A, is one of only a few viruses so far that have asked for a ransom in exchange for releasing control of a computer, Cluley said.


The new Trojan falls into a class of viruses described as "ransomware." The schemes had been seen in Russia, but the first one appeared in English just last month.


"It is a new kind of malware with a particularly nasty payload," Cluley said.

Once run, the Trojan freezes the computer, displaying a message saying files are being deleted every 30 minutes. It then gives instructions on how to send $10.99 via Western Union to free the computer.


Hitting the control, alt, and delete keys will not affect the bug, the virus writer warns.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060427/tc_pcworld/125569

A good beginning *Apllaude*
These F*cking Spammers can go to hell! My Mailbox is full of their Shit!
I read somewhere today, that Blue Security , one of the most efficient Anti Spam Fighters throw a white Towel!
They were in the Crossline, because the Software of them wrote a replie Message back to the Spam Sender!
But on the end, they received a massive attack from the Russian Spam Mafia!

Source : Zdnet & Cnet