19-Year-Old Charged for Blaster Worm

"1" is supposed to be a 19. I apologize for any confusion ^_^.

The second Parson in the second paragraph should be capitalized?

there is a fine line between constructive criticism, and de-structive criticism. While you are right. does it matter? one little capitalization error doesnt seem like something to point out. if you look at the daily news paper, you will find more errors.com on. give me a break

seems a little bit low to me, considering I never get infected with these types of viruses, but got infect with this one not once, but twice!

This one is usually sent from someone on your network. If only one person got it and you were on the same network then you would most likely get it. You clean it up. He doesn't you get it again. Total infected two.
If I remember it was the network traffic that brought networks down rather than the amount of systems infected that caused the damage.

Parson didn't write the Blaster worm, he just got hold of a copy, opened it up in his hex editor and bound a trojan to it. He DID NOT write a virus at all, he just editting an existing one, basically all he did was change it's name. Watch out for the media trying to represent this as them catching a virus writer and bringing him to justice, when in fact all they did was catch some kid who made a stupid mistake.

I never hard any worms or major virus. :) I don't know where do people surf to get it.

Dam people who have nothing better to do then write a virus, destroy my custom build pc.. dammm them all.........

I can't help but be a bit glad this worm broke out. I had just got out of the military, and because of the network problems it was causing, I got in with my current consulting firm. They have kept my busy ever since, including with my current position.

Still, I have no respect for virus/worm writers. Most non-IT people think these guys are so smart, but as someone who writes software, I feel a virus is one of the easier programs to write. You don't have to worry about support, user interface, bugs, overhead, cpu/memory limitations, or copywright infringement.
Just look up a known exploit, and write some code to take advantage of it. Anyone who thinks these guys are ingenious, in my opinion, are wrong.

This kid didnt write the blaster, but his version was found a drug super market computer, that had to shut down their orders for the day. People where not able to pick up their scripts. So he did cause some damage.