Thursday, February 12, 2009

Wanted: Dead or Alive

There's a worm out there that's infected ten million computers. Microsoft isn't happy about it.

But maybe money can buy happiness - they've offered a cool $250,000 to anyone who rats the worm's creator out:

Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the virus writers behind the infamous Conficker (Downadup) worm.

The bounty, announced Thursday, represents a revival of Microsoft's mothballed Anti-virus Reward Program, launched in 2003 and virtually moribund since 2004.

Interesting approach. It will be more interesting if it works. 250 large might just do the trick.

Oh, and just because, some musical Dead or Alive:

1 comment:

  1. There's also a band called Dead or Alive; They're Briddish, mostly out of Liverpool. They stayed at a hotel I was working at about 10 years ago. Lead singer is a transvestite, he delayed the show because he has stage fright and had to have his pump primed with a bottle of vodka before he'd leave the hotel. Next morning he ate breakfast with the other guests, still in his drag stage outfit, which caused a certain amount of eyebrow-liftage from the other guests, as you might imagine.

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