Microsoft: bounty hunting
anon 06 Nov 2003

Microsoft is offering cash rewards to catch virus writers.

With the support of US and international law enforcement, Microsoft
[MSFT] has put a price on the heads of the authors of the SoBig and
MSBlast worms, as the first step in a new $5 million anti-virus rewards
program. The potential of a nice, fat paycheck may be enough to attract
the attention of security researchers and virus writers' friends, but it
could also add kudos to writing a major virus.

Company general counsel Brad Smith, joined by representatives of the
Information Technology Association of America, Interpol, the US Secret
Service and the FBI, told reporters that Microsoft will give $250,000 to
whoever turns in the authors of either SoBig or MSBlast ...

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