Sasser & NetskyEasily

Sasser & NetskyEasily one of the most famous and prolific variants of computer worms,famous for effectiveness and the fact that it was authored by an 18 year-old German, Sven Jaschan, who confessed to having written these and other worms.Netsky sticks in my mind because it was the first time that a virus insulted other virus authors. Here the authors of both the Bagle and Mydoom worm families were dissed and, in some cases, Netsky includedcode that removed versions of the competing viruses.The other reason this one sticks with me was that the author was turned in to authorities by a friend who wanted to collect the$250,000 bounty that Microsoft put up for information about the outbreak. Though obviously, not a really good friend!