[photopress:itpanda_virus.jpg,full,alignright]Li Jun, 25, and three others, all of them in their twenties, were accused of writing the virus ‘Xiongmao Shaoxiang’, or ‘Panda burning joss stick’. It spread through the Internet and causing huge damage to millions of computer users from November 2006 to March of this year. Li was sentenced for four years in jail.
Two aspects of the case would have affected the sentence.
The first is that evidence was given that the four defendants raked in more than RMB200,000 S$27,000) by selling the virus.
The second part is that after Li Jun was arrested, he wrote a program that could remove the virus.
The latest computer virus report conducted by Rising virus prevention company showed that a total of 133,717 new viruses were around in China in the first half of 2007.
Source: China.org.cn