Mark Carras
07-19-2007, 04:40 PM
An anonymous reader writes "There is a great writeup over on CNET covering the pursuit of a virus writer who created a fake Grand Theft Auto game, crippling PCs by causing them to endlessly reboot. Despite the police apparently not being very interested, a security researcher pursued his man anyway, culminating in a teary eyed 'I'm leaving the internet' post from the virus writer himself. Awesome stuff, and one in the eye for the bad guys (for once)."Read more of this story (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/19/2044244&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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