Microsoft offers virus bounty

[Elwood]

Can't they use that money to hire good coders ? :-)

[kolla]

So, if I turn myself in I get USD 500.000?

Cool.

"Hey, I'm Brian too, and so is my wife!"  :-D

[Lo]

So, if I turn myself in I get USD 500.000?

  Don't be silly,  hold out for a million and let us turn you in.  :-)

[amigamad]

The virus was wrote by microsoft its called windows. :-)

[bloodline]

Yes, It wouldn't be the first time M$ has paid people to produce a virus ;-)

[levelLORD]

That guy, Mikko Hypponen, is that the same guy who wrote Amiga anti-virus software, back in '90.? I can't remember the name of that software, but there was a bounty, $1000 reward for any information which will lead to arrest any virus coder, and also there was big icon, I think mouse was pixeled in it.
I found very strange that CNN is calling a virus as a "computer bug"? Weird...

later,

levelLORD

[Dan]

Is there a chance to earn those 2 x $250k if I turn in the authors of MS Lookout and IIS? Let's attack the roots here.

:roflmao:   
They should have a $250.000  reward for people who reports securityholes to them instead.
But then of course they would soon be bancrupt. :lol:
The problem isn´t really that there is security holes in Windows it´s that Micro$oft denies that up to that point  a  MSBlast gets out.

[that_punk_guy]

I found very strange that CNN is calling a virus as a "computer bug"?

Maybe a combination of ignorance and having heard it referred to as a worm at some point. You'd think a big company like CNN would have a tech guy who'd call them on it though. Still what do they care, as long as they're scaring the living #### out of everyone...

[vortexau]

GadgetMaster wondered

"Virus Bounty"
Eargh!
Sounds like some coconut centred chocolate confectionary gone wrong.

[/quote]

So, any possibility of a "Mutiny from MS-dependance Bounty" instead?  Anyone?
:-P