A virus writer from Estonia has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for creating a Windows worm.

"Artur Boiko, 44, was convicted by a jury of creating the Allaple worm and sentenced to two years and seven months following a trial," writes The Register's John Leyden. "Boiko pleaded not guilty but prosecutors persuaded the jury that he became a malware author in late 2006 to seek revenge against insurance firm IF following a dispute over a rejected car accident insurance claim."

"The Allaple worm family spread fairly widely across the net and launched a denial of service attack from infected machines against three pre-programmed targets: if.ee, www.online.if.ee (the insurance firm's customer portal) and www.starman.ee (an Estonian ISP)," Leyden writes.

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