The support sasser team

Sasser suspect fanclub launches appeal site.  An anonymous post to the "Full Disclosure" security mailing list announced a new website dedicated to raising money for 18-year-old Sven J.  However with in days it was closed - "We have decided to stop our fundraiser. Losing the paypal account didn't exactly improve the case either, and it seems all other online payment services have even worse fees. All donations will of course be refunded to the extent that paypal permits usage of the locked account."

Here is what these people posted on their site, which looks like it was hosted in Denmark:

Security Scene helps SASSER author in hard times.  

Do you feel like you're a part of the security scene? Give the SASSER author a better time in jail then. Sven Jaschan really needs your support in a time like this, with possible multi-million dollar lawsuits ahead. After all, SASSER was intended as a harmless wake-up call to the world. Imagine what could happen if this had been done by criminals with no respect for the public. Medical systems could be open for tampering, harbor control systems could cause massive oil spills by terrorists and so on. Sven did the right thing by making this alarm call. When will people realise that microsofts base products are not fit to be subjected to the hostile environment that the internet is these days?

Show some love to the scene and it will pay back one day! This is probably the last days of Sven's life where he is not drowned by an unpayable debt. Let's get together and make sure he has some enjoyable days at least, so he has something to remember with joy in the hard times to come.  Donate some money to this paypal account and we'll make sure it's spended the way it should. No matter how small or insignificant it might seem, every donation is cherished.... 

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Though some "Full Disclosure" users agreed that Microsoft shared responsibility for Sasser for writing the bug that made the worm possible, most posters didn't see the virus as the work of a good Samaritan.

Some visitors to the site are apparently willing to give $ to the appeal and from the contribution page it showed that it had nearly $100 in donations ranging from one cent to ten dollars.