Guilty as charged

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Aug 12, 2004

Teen admits to distributing Blaster variant.

Minnesota teenager Jeffrey Lee Parson has pleaded guilty to distributing the B variant of the Blaster worm .

Parson admitted to a Seattle court that he had created the B variant of Blaster by modifying the original MS Blaster worm.

The 19-year-old will be sentenced on 12 November 2004 and faces a maximum of a little over three years (37 months) in prison as well as (potentially) several hundred thousand dollars in fines.

Posted on 12 August 2004 by Virus Bulletin

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