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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software since 2000

$250,000 Reward for Blaster/Sobig authors

Wednesday November 5, 2003
Calling them the "Saboteurs of Cyberspace", Microsoft joined forces with the US Secret Service, Interpol, and the FBI to form an "Anti-Virus Reward Program". Their first act was to place two quarter million dollar bounties for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the authors of the Blaster.A and Sobig worms. The $250,000 reward money is an international bounty without borders.
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