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Israeli teenagers charged with Goner virus outbreak
By John Leyden
Posted: 06/08/2002 at 13:15 GMT
Five Israeli teenagers have been charged with creating and spreading
the W32/Goner-A virus, which spread rapidly on the Internet after its
release in December last year.
The Ha'aretz newspaper reports that the five were charged at Haifa
District Court with wilfully causing damage to computers belonging
to companies and private individuals around the world, including NASA,
through their involvement in unleashing the virus.
One of the minors has been charged with writing the Goner virus,
whilst the others have been charged with disseminating it.
The indictment also claims that one of the group had previously
written a virus targeting users of Internet chat rooms - but this
failed to cause the intended damage.
The suspects could face between three and five years in jail if
convicted, said Meir Zohar, head of the police computer crime squad.
W32/Goner-A spread via email,
arriving with the subject line 'Hi'
and carrying an infected attachment called GONE.SCR,
posing as a screensaver. Once activated, the worm spread to all
contacts in the user's Outlook address book, and via Internet chat.
The virus has some nasty tricks up its sleeve, including trying to
disable some anti-virus and personal firewalls applications.
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