Virus maker arrested in China
Li Jun, maker of the notorious computer virus “Xiongmao Shaoxiang”, or “Panda burning joss stick”, was arrested on Thursday with the approval of Xiantao City procuratorate in central China’s Hubei Province.
The virus, which infects program files and flashes a picture of a panda holding three joss sticks, has been spreading through the Internet since December last year. It has infected millions of computers nationwide.