Are The Authors Of These P.C. Viruses Tracked Down?

[Eightball]

I was wondering.

It seems like on the news or via the internet, there seems to be a constant barrage of P.C. viruses or worms that someone or persons keep hatching out on a regular basis.

A couple times a year, I'll hear about some hacker getting tracked down and arrested, but the spread of these P.C. viruses seems to be on the increase.

Who are the people or peoples that develop these illegal programs designed to snoop, or just create havoc with business and home P.C.'s?

Is someone paying them to do this, or do they get personal gain in another form.

Obviously these are brainy folks.

Why can't they be tracked down? Seems like there is a Trojan this and a Trojan that being announced every couple weeks. Who's doing this?

Seems also that this problem does validate a basic evil nature in man. In other words, man isn't getting better, but is just the same from the beginning of his creation. Some may desire and think that a world of U.S. Utopia is possible, but it's a "pipe" dream.

Most of us who have had a smigeon or more of religion(biblical) know that this nature is only dealt with by an omnipotent hand. The rest will just try to be good and make everyone else try to be good, and still get P.C. virus attacks as reminder that there efforts are hopeless.

Enough with the moral aspect.

Who are these devious folks behind these disgusting, intrusive computer viruses?

 

[gaffer]

What I would suggest is when they track one of these scumbags down, they break every finger and bone in his hands so he can't do anymore programing, and no pain killer while they heal.

 

[freeandfun1]

I think the anti-virus makers are the one behind most of the viruses!

 

[insein]

not a virus, but a guy that definitely needed to be stopped. I hate spammers.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050409/D89BI7SO0.html

Judge Sentences Spammer to Nine Years

Apr 8, 8:38 PM (ET)

By MATTHEW BARAKAT

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) - A man convicted in the nation's first felony case against illegal spamming was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday for bombarding Internet users with millions of junk e-mails.

However, Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas Horne delayed the start of Jeremy Jaynes' prison term while the case is appealed, saying the law is new and raises constitutional questions.

A jury had recommended the nine-year term for the Raleigh, N.C., man.

Jaynes, 30, who was considered among the top 10 spammers in the world at the time of his arrest, used the Internet to peddle pornography and sham products and services such as a "FedEx refund processor," prosecutors said. Thousands of people fell for his e-mails, and prosecutors said Jaynes' operation grossed up to $750,000 per month.

Jaynes was convicted in November for using false Internet addresses and aliases to send mass e-mail ads through an AOL server in Loudoun County, where America Online is based. Under Virginia law, sending unsolicited bulk e-mail itself is not a crime unless the sender masks his identity.

While prosecutors presented evidence of just 53,000 illegal e-mails, authorities believe Jaynes was responsible for spewing out 10 million e-mails a day. Prosecutors said Jaynes made millions of dollars from the illegal venture.

Prosecutor Lisa Hicks-Thomas said she was pleased with the ruling and confident that the law would be upheld on appeal.

But defense attorney David Oblon argued that nine years was far too long given that Jaynes was charged as an out-of-state resident with violating a Virginia law that had taken effect just weeks before. He planned to challenge both the constitutionality of the law, as well as its applicability to Jaynes.

"We have no doubt that we will win on appeal, therefore any sentence is somewhat moot. Still, the sentence is not what we recommended and we're disappointed," Oblon said outside court.

Horne said he might also reconsider the sentence if Jaynes loses the appeal.

 

[Johnney]

probably some little snot nosed teen that has nothing better to do than screw with peoples stuff. or on the other hand they could be trying to sniff out your credit card numbers or bank account numbers some people store on thier machines.

 

[Eightball]

probably some little snot nosed teen that has nothing better to do than screw with peoples stuff. or on the other hand they could be trying to sniff out your credit card numbers or bank account numbers some people store on thier machines.

Well, I say, "long prison sentences for them!".