>Well it looks like several addresses are there. Sender, etc. Why cannot >they trace back to the original Sender and prosecute for knowingly sending >a virus that has no other purpose but to impede communication, destroying >information, computers etc.?
There was only one time I know of, where the FBI and other agencies were able to trace a virus through pure "forensics". You have to find the "first instance" of infection. It is no different than finding the source of ebloa. You would think, that with 50 years of occasional outbreaks, we would certainly know where Ebola comes from, but we don't. It just pops up, because the tracks of the first people who get it cannot be totally traced. Same with Viruses. In the early days, yes, a virus writer would simply email it out. Now that one has been caught, they are much smarter. They embed viruses into music files, porn files, blogs, web pages, etc. Once the infection starts, they are gone. In addition, they never use their own account for that first posting. For instance, lets say I hack into a users AOL account by guessing the password. I might NEVER use that account, except to launch my payload. Totally untraceable. It is terrorism, just like the terorists we fight around the world are doing. Both are very patient, and while most of the "virus variants" are simple hacks of existing viruses, and those perpetrators often caught, the original authors are almost never caught. The authors also use teenage contacts who they never disclose themselves to to further add to the murkiness. This is global espionage/sabotage. To the casual user, it would seem simple. This stuff has gotten much more covert, with suspected virus writers including the Chinese military, terrorists, Russian and east european espionage agents, German spys, and more. Many of the people left over idle from the cold war are still working, but found new paymasters, like the various mafias and other criminal and terrorist organizations. "A corrupt society has many laws." - Tacitus, Roman Senator Mark James SoftRAID, LLC mjames@ softraid.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
