[bit.listserv.gaynet] alleged creator of AIDS info disk caught

DOUG%YSUB.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Doug Sewell) (02/06/90)

According to information posted to VIRUS-L@LEHIIBM1, the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, and other sources, the person alleged to have created the AIDS
INFORMATION DISK from "PC Cyborg" has been caught.  This disk would also
scramble the hard drive of your computer if you ran the program.  Infor-
mation about that disk was posted to this list several months ago.  The
disk was primarily distributed in Europe and Africa.

Joseph Popp of Willowick, OH, has been charged with blackmail under UK
laws, and extradition papers have been filed.  Charges will probably be
filed in other countries.  He is presently being held without bond, and
is under psychiatric review.

For more information, see either the Cleveland Plain Dealer (available
in libraries) or the online archives of VIRUS-L, or contact me privately.
Otherwise, you may now continue with what you were doing before I inter-
rupted you (:

Doug  (DOUG@YSUB.BITNET, DOUG%YSUB.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)

GREVE@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU (Michael Greve) (02/06/90)

      How interesting that they caught this guy.  I grew up in Willowick, Oh.
   Did the article say how old the guy was???  It sounds a little familiar,
   maybe I went to High School with him.  Who knows.

					Michael