Microsoft announces $5 million Antivirus Reward Program. Program offers $250,000 bounty to anyone with information leading to arrest and conviction of the Blaster or SoBig worm. Virus writers are driven by the same motivation that makes people climb mountains, analyst says. Some see the move as a PR ploy to make Microsoft look especially earnest in its security efforts. Microsoft is taking pains to emphasize that the rewards program is just one arm of its new push to make its products and the Web safer.”]
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