Should Microsoft, the police and governments be doing more to catch the

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conficker author? This particularly irritating piece of malware has been in the news a lot of late. Microsoft have a $250, 000 bounty on the head of whoever wrote & activated it, but are the authorities really doing enough to locate the 'HQ' of conficker and actually make arrests related to it?

If they are in a 'lawless' country then I'm sure Western forces could still act under anti terror laws, we seem to be able to do plenty of other things under that guise.

We the computer nerds know all about the worm & what it does, but what we don't know is where it's base is, who's controling this cyberthreat?

What else could we do to track them down?

Fire away.
 
The thing is I completely agree with your question, authorities should step up and try to find the culprit for this virus. Companies and security companies are working both together to combat this virus and imprison these authors of this conficker virus. But the thing is, it is nearly impossible to finger point a particular person of this virus, as there are many locations in the world, from where security companies are speculating, they are saying it has originated from China, South America, Vietnam. This virus is very complex and complicated, so you can imagine of what lengths the authors would go to protect themselves from being found out..

But yeah companies should find the culprits of the conficker virus, but again it is very difficult to find the author.
 
In short you will never catch them! As regards "Lawless Countries" what do you suggest they do? Sanctions? Invasion?

First of all you have to actually prove it originated there. The country may only be a gateway to the rest of the internet.

How hard are they are to trace? Ever read a true story book "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll? A rough gist was account that hadn't been used for sometime became active and had run up a bill for 75¢!

It turned out that this account was being used as a link to infiltrate the Military Network in the US. It took Stoll to eventually trace it back to East Germany in the old Berlin Wall days. Time taken? 7 years! Because the bloke who was doing it knew what he was doing and how to lose himself in the networks!

Serious crime and offences can take four and five years to nail them with 100% indisputable proof

Reason why, what's a cyber offence in one country is not in another.

Bill Gates could put a $5 million bounty and they still wouldn't catch him/her. Note, I say her because females are just as clever and capable to do it the same as a bloke can!
 
well how are u going to catch them when they use multi port routing
scattering the signal from a 100 spots
 
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