full-disclosure - Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

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From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

"Larry Roberts" <larryr@...beam.net> writes:

> The funnier thing would be if this was the guy tried to make the
> variant that takes over your machine via the DCOM exploit and goes
> out the windowsupdate.com and downloads the fix. That would be
> hilarious!!!

This worm (which isn't a variant of the original one) is causing most
of the damage.  Punishing the author would only be fair.