Sasser E carries warning
p2pnet.net News:- On the heels of the arrest of an 18-year-old German programmer who bred the Sasser worm, another German has been arrested and has admitted to creating Agobot and Phatbot, two other e-critturs with insatiable appetites for Microsoft-ware.
However, neither author is connected to the other, says an IDG News Service report here.
"German police arrested the man on Friday in the southern German town of Waldshut and charged him under the country’s computer sabotage law for attacks on computers in Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. linked to Agobot and Phatbot," says the story.
"Five other men were also charged in connection to the so-called Trojan programs, but there is no link to the arrest of an 18-year-old in connection with the Sasser Internet worm, said Horst Haug, a spokesman for the State Bureau of Investigation in Baden-Wuerttemberg."
The Phatbot author was nailed following tips from the FBI, Haug is quoted as saying.
Back to Sasser, the latest variant, Sasser.E, attempts to warn people people their computers are vulnerable that their systems haven’t been patched, says ZDNet here, going on:
"Sasser.E is currently rated a low security threat by antivirus firm Network Associates and rates a ‘2′ on rival Symantec’s five-point scale. It is believed to have infected fewer than 100,000 computer systems since its discovery on Saturday night, said Jimmy Kuo, a research fellow with antivirus software maker NAI."
