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Four Chinese men have been charged with creating and spreading an internet worm in a rare example of a cybercrime prosecution in the country. Li Jun, Wang Lei, Zhang Shun, and Lei Lei faced charges in a people's court in Hubei Province on Tuesday over the alleged creation and distribution of the Fujacks worm, Shanghai Daily …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Wow, I can see why China is so angry

    Tracking down and deworming all those pandas is going to take a massive amount of resources and be sort of messy too.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    No wonder China prosecuted

    In selling gaming accounts, they threatened China's important gold farming industry!

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  3. Nick

    Ironic...

    Wouldn't it be ironic if this worm was first detected by Panda-AV, that oh so .... AV program.

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  4. Alan Donaly

    Panda av is spanish

    Panda is a Spanish company this is rather confusing

    to me but maybe that is intentional. I don't know is it

    OK to tear the fingernails out and crush the testicles

    of people who steal games passwords and force them

    to write a cleanup program actually if it can do the cleanup

    then I think it's best to use it he does know _all_ the

    changes his software made to those systems, and others

    don't I would question if it is a good thing to continue

    to trust any installation that can be attacked in this way

    so I don't know that it helps to just fix it back to it's pristene

    but vulnerable prior state.

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