Chinese Police Release Fix by Fujacks Suspect

First published: 28^th February 2007

The Xinhua News Agency has reported that Hubei police intend to release a program claimed to clean up the Fujacks worm written by Li Jun, a suspect arrested for creating the worm. Li Jun claimed he wrote the anti–Fujacks program but did not release it because he feared it would lead police to him. The Fujacks worm is also known as "Xiongmao Shaoxiang".

The move has been criticised by security experts, including Graham Cluley of Sophos, citing that virus writers are untrustworthy and irresponsible. Cluley elaborated, “Additionally, the Fujacks virus left some infected files unable to run. That hardly suggests that the author took quality assurance seriously when he constructed his malware. Our recommendation to computer users would be to clean their PCs with professional tools written by security experts.”