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Microsoft Offers Bounty for Virus Writers

Microsoft is offering a total of $5 million in bounty for information leading to the arrest of recent virus writers, including $250,000 for the authors of Blaster and SoBig.F. This is pretty cool. For a long time, we’ve suspected that…

Microsoft is offering a total of $5 million in bounty for information leading to the arrest of recent virus writers, including $250,000 for the authors of Blaster and SoBig.F.

This is pretty cool. For a long time, we’ve suspected that the virus writers are targeting Microsoft because they just don’t like the company. Now Microsoft is fighting back.

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