Blaster kid sent to jail for 18 months

The teenager, now 19 years old, Jeffrey Lee Parson is a high school student in Hopkins, Minnesota.  Parson admitted he released the worm hoping it would create damage which it did.  All this happened during August last year.  For his handy work, he gets 18 months plus 100 hours community service for his part as author of the Blaster-B virus.

The MS Blaster Virus, that pesky virus, cost you a heap of problems and your company a heap of money? Well, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman sentenced a teenager to 18 months in prison for distributing the MS Blaster virus that infected close to 50 thousand computers during 2003.

The virus, also known as LovScan virus, used one of the vulnerabilities in Microsoft´s 2000 and XP Operating Systems. The virus, once installed on an XP / 2000 machine, would attack Microsoft´s website.