A Dutch virus writer known as OnTheFly admitted Tuesday to
Published:
15 February 2001 y., Thursday
A Dutch virus writer known as OnTheFly admitted Tuesday to
writing the Anna Kournikova virus, as Excite@Home compiled
evidence against a subscriber in the Netherlands who is
believed to be the same person."I didn't do it for fun,"
OnTheFly stated in a Web posting Tuesday. "I never wanted to
harm the people who opened the attachment. But after all: it's
their own fault they got infected." The statement confirmed
that OnTheFly used a readily available virus-writing tool,
known as the Vbs Worm Generator, to create the Anna Kournikova
virus, but exonerated the tool's author of aiding him.
Meanwhile, a source at Excite@Home has acknowledged that the
company is trying to identify and ban a Dutch subscriber who
appears to be OnTheFly. A previous virus, known as Iwa, had
been posted to the alt.comp.virus.source.code newsgroup using
Excite@Home Netherlands' network."We are working on it," said
the Excite@Home source, who asked not to be named. "It is a
clear violation of the acceptable use policy. We will come
down hard and fast."The information connecting OnTheFly and
the Excite@Home subscriber had first been found by Richard
Smith, chief technology officer of the Privacy Foundation and
a key online detective in the Melissa virus case two years
ago. Also known as VBS/SST, VBS_Kalamar and VBS/OnTheFly, the
Anna Kournikova virus initially poses as an attachment--
AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs--that has been included in an e-mail
with one of several similar subject lines.
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