[pchelpers] News:Netsky worm made me the hero of my class

      Note how the influence of friends at school brought this about:


      Computer virus writer: "Netsky worm made me the hero of my class"



An interview <http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/stern.html> with 
German teenager Sven Jaschan, arrested in connection with the Sasser and 
Netsky virus outbreaks, has revealed that all of his classmates at 
college knew that he was the author of the destructive worms.

The interview in Stern magazine paints a picture of Jaschan as a shy, 
quiet teenager studying computer science at the vocational school in 
Rotenburg. The magazine describes him as a young man with few friends, 
who didn't like drinking or partying.

However, Jaschan discussed the Netsky worms he was writing in early 2004 
with his brothers, sisters and many of his classmates. "They even 
encouraged me to add something that would cause damage, but that was 
never what I wanted," claims Jaschan in the magazine. Soon, it is said, 
all of the students in Jaschan's class knew what he was doing, and 
Jaschan claims that some of them helped him distribute his malicious code.
more here:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/netskyhero.html

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