The alleged writer of a major mutation of the notorious "Panda
burning joss stick" computer virus has been arrested in southwest
China's Yunnan Province, local police have
reported.
The virus, named "Jinzhu Baoxi", or "Golden pig announcing good
news", was allegedly written by Xue Qing, of Honghe County. Xue is
alleged to have made a mutation of the "Panda" virus on Feb. 14 and
then spread the virus on the Internet, infecting a large number of
Internet users.
Li Jun, who allegedly made the "panda burning joss stick" virus,
was arrested on Thursday on a warrant from Xiantao City
procuratorate in central China's Hubei Province.
The virus infects computer systems and program files and has
spread through the Internet since December last year. It has
infected millions of computers nationwide.
The "Panda" virus was listed as the worst computer virus last
year by Chinese anti-virus company Rising. Chinese computer experts
kept warning Internet users against its mutations.
Investigations into the "Golden pig" case are still underway,
Honghe police said.
(Xinhua News Agency March 20, 2007)