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Virus Writer for VBS/Lasku arrested

VBS/Lasku

Virus Writer for VBS/Lasku arrested
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A new arrest was announced today: the Finnish Central Criminal Police is pressing charges against a Finnish man in his twenties. The man, who lives in the city of Tampere, is accused of writing and distributing the VBS/Lasku virus in the end of January 2004. VBS/Lasku is an unremarkable virus which keeps crashing when it tries to spread. The virus displays a quote taken from Tolkien's "Lord of The Rings" and deletes data.  VBS/Lasku tries to replicate by sending email messages written in Finnish - which is quite rare.