According to recent media reports, a Finnish court has sentenced two teenagers to pay fines after it was found they had published harmful viruses and Trojan horses on their web sites.
The Riihimaki District Court found the young men, who are 17 and 19 years old, had copied the unnamed malicious programs from elsewhere on the Internet, and published links to other web sites containing harmful code. The 19-year-old was also alleged to have broken into the web sites of two organisations, after receiving usernames and passwords from his younger friend.
The District Court determined that publishing links to the malicious web sites was against the law. One of the men was also said to have published viral source code on his web site, which could be used to create brand new viruses and Trojan horses.
The offences are said to have taken place in 2004. Under the District Court's sentence the 17-year old will have to pay a $430 fine, and his older accomplice $360.
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