Re: 'Chernobyl' Computer Virus Author Dodges Prison

[Axel Pettinger <api () worldonline de>]

[Sorry Fergie, now you get my mail twice as the first one was only sent
to you unintentionally.]

Fergie wrote:
> Via PhysOrg.com (UPI).
>
> [snip]
>
> A Russian college student convicted of creating the Chernobyl 
> computer virus received a two-year suspended sentence Tuesday.

After I read that story I wondered whether I had missed a few facts. I
know that the original author of CIH was C.I.H. from Taiwan. But maybe
one of the variants which appeared much later was a modified copy of the
virus made by that Russian student ... ? I don't know ...

> The virus was programmed to deploy on April 26, the anniversary of 
> the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.

I can't stand that nonsense. Wasn't it a certain anti virus vendor who
called CIH "The Chernobyl virus" one year after it was released? I doubt
that C.I.H. had Chernobyl in his mind when he wrote version 1.2 of his
virus ...

> Here:
> http://www.physorg.com/news65868120.html

Original source:
http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20060502-115109-2022r

Regards,
Axel Pettinger
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