{"id":14824,"date":"2007-09-24T20:40:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/24\/china-jails-panda-worm-writer-for-four-years-gregg-keizer\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T20:40:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T03:40:37","slug":"china-jails-panda-worm-writer-for-four-years-gregg-keizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/china-jails-panda-worm-writer-for-four-years-gregg-keizer\/","title":{"rendered":"China Jails Panda Worm Writer for Four Years &#8211; Gregg Keizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cute image of panda is used almost everywhere in China.  If one day panda&#8217;s image appears at your computer screen, you won&#8217;t be very happy.  It is a sign of getting <a href=\"http:\/\/it.people.com.cn\/GB\/8219\/77019\/index.html\">Panda Worm<\/a>, which was the worst computer virus and attacked millions of computers in China in 2006.  Now the Panda Worm&#8217;s writer is facing four years in  prison.  From Computer World:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/PW1.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/PW1.php','popup','width=97,height=96,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/PW1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"96\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 25-year-old programmer who unleashed the Panda worm almost a year ago in China was sentenced today to four years in prison, a news service reported from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Li Jun, arrested in February and charged last month with making approximately $13,000 selling the worm &#8212; dubbed both &#8220;Fujacks&#8221; and &#8220;Panda Burning Joss Sticks&#8221; &#8212; was given a four-year jail term by a court in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xiantao\">Xiantao<\/a>, China. Three other men &#8212; all in their 20s, according to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) wire service &#8212; were sentenced to between one year and two and a half years for their part in spreading the worm.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9038518&#038;source=rss_news50\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cute image of panda is used almost everywhere in China. If one day panda&#8217;s image appears at your computer screen, you won&#8217;t be very happy. It is a sign of getting Panda Worm, which was the worst computer virus and attacked millions of computers in China in 2006. 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