Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward for Conficker Arrest and Conviction

[juan adames]

Just in case anyone's interested :conficker is responsible for taking out several bank systems in NY city and also is the cause of Intermet Explorer's sluggish behavior.

 

[Altered]

Yup I have to say all the times I have to fix the wifes PC the Kids PC the wife and kids friends PCs my bosses PC the bosses wifes PC and all of their family's PC not to mention the office PC and the secretary's PC and her home PC over stupid stuff like this yeah I would really have to consider selling him out. Probably work a deal to give him a head start to get gone but who knows thats a boatload of cash when many have lost their jobs in the past 6 months. That would clear me of any debt and still put $200,000 under my mattress.

 

[MRCL]

Heh, Conficker...

 

[Wshlist]

If he's american he's screwed we can conclude, because they will indeed sell out their friends family and children for $100 I get from the comments, but if he's from another culture perhaps he'll be safe.

I wonder how long before those spammers and such start to offer $300K for doing something nasty to MS/balmer though, since they have access to so much CC's and bankcomputers it should be doable for them.

Frankly if I thought someone was doing unacceptable stuff I might after a lot of soulsearching and weighing be moved to tell on him, but being offered money would make it less likely, especially if it was money from a big company come to think of it.

 

[95Viper]

If he's american he's screwed we can conclude, because they will indeed sell out their friends family and children for $100 I get from the comments, but if he's from another culture perhaps he'll be safe.

I wonder how long before those spammers and such start to offer $300K for doing something nasty to MS/balmer though, since they have access to so much CC's and bankcomputers it should be doable for them.

Frankly if I thought someone was doing unacceptable stuff I might after a lot of soulsearching and weighing be moved to tell on him, but being offered money would make it less likely, especially if it was money from a big company come to think of it.

I believe you need to take your anti-American sentiment on down the road and quit getting personal...It was completely off topic!

Now back on topic: Yes, I would turn the freak in, money or no...why, because HE or SHE; like others like HIM/HER, are criminals in my mind - not heroes. Use your talents to make something useful and EARN your rewards and not have them offered on you, for your capture. He/She and their kind, have caused grief and hardship to people, probably thousands.

 

[Wshlist]

to 95Viper

I'm not saying he/she is a hero, but the comments were about 'what if you were a friend of the one', now to me friendship has a certain meaning, and I'm sure to you too.
As for anti-americanism, it's simply an observable truth that for what seems the majority of americans (not all mind you) money is god, and I was specifically saying 'going by the comments' to make it clear that I don't necessarily think in real life the average american would sell his friends and family, it's just seems the embarrassing trend in the comments in this thread.
I was hoping that by being snide about selling people out those people who would not sell out others would feel fortified and perhaps voice their views even.

I like how you at least would turn him in because you disapprove of his actions and not for the easy cash, that's something I can respect a whole lot more, but what if he were a friend or relative? would you still feel called upon to do the turning in? There lies the rub.

 

[DrPepper]

I'm not saying he/she is a hero, but the comments were about 'what if you were a friend of the one', now to me friendship has a certain meaning, and I'm sure to you too.
As for anti-americanism, it's simply an observable truth that for what seems the majority of americans (not all mind you) money is god, and I was specifically saying 'going by the comments' to make it clear that I don't necessarily think in real life the average american would sell his friends and family, it's just seems the embarrassing trend in the comments in this thread.
I was hoping that by being snide about selling people out those people who would not sell out others would feel fortified and perhaps voice their views even.

I like how you at least would turn him in because you disapprove of his actions and not for the easy cash, that's something I can respect a whole lot more, but what if he were a friend or relative? would you still feel called upon to do the turning in? There lies the rub.

I'm not american and I'd damn sure hand them in for less. Hell I wish that the people who write virus' to piss us off die because then we end up needing anti virus countermeasures and they suck.

 

[MilkyWay]

id hand him in for that amount in reality it should be larger

if it was my mate id take the cash and wipe any debts i had get a few things give the rest away to charity, coz i wouldnt like selling my mate for cash but id do it for him for his own good and everyone else who got effected

if it was some random shmuck id buy some crap wipe a few debts stick the rest in the bank for a job well done

we learned about this virus in college in some internet saftey class which is deliberately picked to fill up random course time other classes on that course are just as random and stupid and easy

 

[95Viper]

I'm not saying he/she is a hero, but the comments were about 'what if you were a friend of the one', now to me friendship has a certain meaning, and I'm sure to you too.
As for anti-americanism, it's simply an observable truth that for what seems the majority of americans (not all mind you) money is god, and I was specifically saying 'going by the comments' to make it clear that I don't necessarily think in real life the average american would sell his friends and family, it's just seems the embarrassing trend in the comments in this thread.
I was hoping that by being snide about selling people out those people who would not sell out others would feel fortified and perhaps voice their views even.

I like how you at least would turn him in because you disapprove of his actions and not for the easy cash, that's something I can respect a whole lot more, but what if he were a friend or relative? would you still feel called upon to do the turning in? There lies the rub.

My friends, I hope, are not into that and if they were; they would be answering to MS's and which ever agency's wrath. As for relatives, if I had any, Mum and Dad would be a no-brainer (they would not have even gone there): brother or sister; I would have to think long and hard on that one, but someone might get dis-owned.

It is not just Americans that are money and power hungry, I am sure everyone's backyard has them. They just get more news coverage, than the rest.

The people who do this are criminals, period, and need to answer for it.

They should make them clean MS's loos for 30 years; with only toothbrushes.