Teenager admits writing Sasser worm
Filed in: Security — July 6th, 2005
A German teenager has pleaded guilty to creating the Sasser computer virus.
Sven Jaschen was just 17 when he released Sasser, in April 2004. The original worm and its variants infected countless thousands of Windows-based PCs worldwide — in May 2004, it represented more than half of all worms detected.
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17 year old only?! 
“How come western kids learned programming skill so early?”
“They learn by themselves.”
“No need study ah?!”
“Study? What study?”
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July 6th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
I was programming since primary school.
July 6th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
Great one, Paul!
I was learning programming(draw turtle) in primary school, but it was merely copy(white board), key in and run.
July 6th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
are you talking about the LOGO language? yeah, i learned that too. but the copy from the board stuff was so boring. i did some complex robot and all the teachers were like “omg so clever” lolol
July 6th, 2005 at 11:42 pm
I think so… I was only primary one or two, not really remember.
July 7th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
oh……….Liew, i was attacked by Sasser Worm yesterday and spent more than 8 hours to format and install everything again!
so exhausted…..
any good remover tools?
July 7th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
stchatterbox: get the free Symantec Sasser Removal Tool
July 7th, 2005 at 11:18 pm
yup, i got it yesterday immediately………
i think i’d better scan each time before i shut down my computer….otherwise, my data will be lost again!
July 7th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
Instead of scan everytime before shutdown, I am more recommend you to backup the important data in a regular basic.
July 8th, 2005 at 11:03 am
oh? how? i don’t really know so much about backup [ings]