Microsoft works to head off virus attack
CRN.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft said it was working to ward off an Internet virus that was set to attack the software company's Web site on Tuesday. "We're definitely doing everything we can to make sure that our customers who need to get to our site are able to do so," Christopher Budd, Microsoft's security program manager, said Friday.
On Thursday, Microsoft said it would to pay $250,000 to anyone who helps authorities find and prosecute the author of the virus. The cash reward is the third so far under a $5 million program Microsoft announced in early November to help U.S. authorities catch authors of unusually damaging Internet infections aimed at consumers of the company's software products.