Microsoft Offers Bounty for Capture of Conficker Creator

Conficker, the latest Windows worm, has now infected the German military, along with networks in the British and French Air Forces and England's Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. After several weeks of informal collaborations, the world's top virus hunters have formed an official posse to hunt down these very slick bad guys.-Technology Live

Microsoft says it will shell out $250,000 to anyone who gives the company information leading to the arrest and conviction of the creators of the Conficker worm. The Windows worm has been spreading wildly around the world. . More news.