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Usenet comments about the short, flailing malware generating career of script kiddie Jeffrey Lee Parson are scornful of the "stupid" kid who virtually signed a trojan horse with his own contact details.

The FBI arrested the 18-year-old on Friday, charging him with creating a variant of the MS Blaster worm that sent information from infected machines directly to his own website, t33kid.com, which had been registered under his real name using his actual address.

The website is down now, but a cached copy is still live on Google. The cached front page permited visitors to download a copy of several worms, including one designated "p2p.teekid.c" that was designed to spread over file-sharing networks like Kazaa. Visitors had taken advantage of that particular download offer 4,394 times before the site was taken down by the host (aptly named Chaos Networks).

Parson has said he copied and modified the original Blaster worm to amuse himself.

Out-law.com reports that the US Attorney in Seattle announced the arrest on Friday for “one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a computer”. If convicted he will face up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

He is now living under house arrest, and is prohibited from using the internet.

This is not Parson's first incredibly foolish stunt.

According to the Washington Post, Parson also apparently broke into the website of the Minnesota governor's office, leaving the message "site hacked by Teekid," his standard chat name and one that plugged directly into his website details through a simple Google search.

In one online forum, Parson described himself as a "junior Trojaner." A Trojan horse is a malicious program that, when installed on a victim's computer, allows attackers to take complete control over the infected computer. One of the main alterations Parson allegedly made to the Blaster worm was the inclusion of a backdoor Trojan.

In a usenet group back in 2001, Parson wrote:

The t33kid.com staff have decided to take a new route with t33kid.com, we are going to focus on our unique programs that we make for internet protection and internet offense.
We will also be releasing the source code for all of our programs 2 months after they have been released. We Really Hope You Like The New T33kid.com We Are Working Really Hard To Make It The best We Can. We Plan To Be Done Within A Few Weeks. So Look Back Frequently (all sic)

To which a member responded: "John, we've told you before and we'll tell you again, one person DOES NOT make a "staff".