F-Secure is tired with Mydoom

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From their site:

News from the Lab

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by the personnel in charge of analysing virus samples at F-Secure. The
RSS feed for this weblog is available at
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Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Damn Mydoom Posted by Mikko @ 20:49 GMT

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THIS IS A PUBLIC MESSAGE FROM F-SECURE TO ANYBODY WHO MIGHT HAVE
INFORMATION ON THE
WHEREABOUTS OF THE PERSON OR PERSONS BEHIND THE MYDOOM VIRUS FAMILY

We are urging anyone who knows the party behind Mydoom variants to
contant the authorities, let them know who's behind it and to collect
$250,000. Microsoft offered this public bounty reward on Mydoom on
March 11th. It's still valid.

If you have information on the origin of Mydoom, you're most likely
connected to spamming in one way to the other (as Mydoom is used to
create spam proxies). So you should be able to appreciate money.
$250,000 is a lot of money. Think about it.

Report all information on the whereabouts of the virus writers behind
Mydoom via the forms at Internet Fraud Complaint Center or FBI.
Remember to mention that you're interested in collecting the Microsoft
bounty. Feel free to report via a remailer using a fake identity and
leave an E-Gold account. As long as you report. Do it now.

If you're uneasy about filling forms and sending them to FBI, just
contact us. We will work with you. You can reach us at
(e-mail address removed)
 
From their site:

News from the Lab

This is the weblog of the F-Secure Antivirus Research Team, maintained
by the personnel in charge of analysing virus samples at F-Secure. The
RSS feed for this weblog is available at
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/weblog.rdf. Maintainers of this weblog
can be reached at:

Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Damn Mydoom Posted by Mikko @ 20:49 GMT

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Feel free to report via a remailer using a fake identity and
leave an E-Gold account. As long as you report. Do it now.

If you're uneasy about filling forms and sending them to FBI, just
contact us. We will work with you. You can reach us at
(e-mail address removed)
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Interesting however the FBI can get the User’s contact
or identifying information from e-gold.
The US has a MLAT with Nevis.
Provided there are reasonable grounds for believing that a non-tax
related criminal offense has been committed assistance will be granted.

[excerpts follow]

e-gold Account User Agreement
<http://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/e-g-agree.htm>

THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT ARE THE ISSUER AND THE USER.

1. Definition of Terms

1.3. “Issuer” means e-gold Ltd., a Nevis Corporation.

1.6. “User” means any user accessing an e-gold account with permissions
granted by Primary User.

2. Conditions of Use

2.2. Identifying Information. User must provide Issuer with valid and
accurate identifying information as determined from time to time by Issuer.

3.7. Privacy

3.7.1. Issuer will produce and maintain a Privacy Policy, which will be
publicly available at the e-gold website. In the event of any conflict
between the Privacy Policy and this Agreement, the terms of this
Agreement will control.

3.7.2. Unless (1) otherwise approved by User or (2) ordered by a court or
arbitration body of acceptable jurisdiction, as determined by Issuer,
Issuer shall not reveal User’s contact or identifying information or
transaction history to any third party.

4.6. Right of Association

Issuer reserves the right to refuse service to particular individuals or
entities, at its sole discretion, with or without cause.

4.6.1. Refusal with Cause

Issuer will block any transactions that increment or decrement the balance
in User’s e-gold account (“Freeze”), with cause:

4.6.1.2. Issuer will Freeze or remove a Freeze from an e-gold account, if
ordered to do so by an order from a court or arbitration body of acceptable
jurisdiction, as determined by Issuer.

8. Jurisdiction

This Account Agreement is governed by the laws of Nevis as such laws are
applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within
Nevis by Nevis residents.

e-gold Ltd. Privacy Policy
<http://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/policy.htm>

The Privacy provisions of the e-gold Account User Agreement presently
constitute the entire e-gold Ltd. Privacy Policy:

Unless (1) otherwise approved by User or (2) ordered by a court or
arbitration body of acceptable jurisdiction, as determined by Issuer,
Issuer shall not reveal User’s contact or identifying information or
transaction history to any third party.

Criminal Cases Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaties:
Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaties (MLATs) are relatively
recent development. They seek to improve the effectiveness of judicial
assistance and to regularize and facilitate its procedures.


MLATs

The United States has bilateral Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLAT)
currently in force with:
...
St. Kitts-Nevis

Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties contains a non-exhaustive list of the
major types of assistance to be provided under the Treaty, including
taking the testimony or statements of persons; providing documents,
records, and articles of evidence; locating or identifying persons; serving
documents; transferring persons in custody for testimony or other purposes;
executing requests for searches and seizures; as- sisting in proceedings
related to immobilization and forfeiture of assets, restitution to the
victims of crime and collection of fines; and any other form of assistance
not prohibited by the laws of the Requested State.
 
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