Cupid

The best known story involving Cupid is the tale of Cupid and Psyche. An indication of the worm's infection of a given PC is the existence of the file C:WIN.LOG or C:WIN2.LOG on the PCs hard disk, as well as seemingly random crashes of LSASS.EXE caused by faulty code used in the worm. He is often depicted as carrying two sets of arrows: one set gold-headed, which inspire love, and the other lead-headed, which inspire hatred. This was because he was tried as a minor. In later literature, Cupid is frequently invoked as fickle, playful, and perverse. On Friday, July 8, 2005, he received a 21 month suspended sentence. In epic poetry, he is less often invoked, but he does appear in Virgil's Aeneid changed into the shape of Ascanius inspiring Dido's love. Sven Jaschan was found guilty of computer sabotage and illegally altering data.

Cupid figures prominently in ariel poetry, lyrics, and, of course, Elegiac love and metamorphic poetry. The virus was released on his 18th birthday (April 29, 2004). He is also shown wearing a helmet and carrying a buckler (perhaps in reference to Virgil's Omnia vincit amor or as political satire on wars for love or love as war). He was tried as a minor because the German courts determined that he created the virus before he was 18. He is often depicted with his mother (in graphic arts, this is nearly always Venus), playing a horn. It was the only variation that attempted to remove other worms from the infected computer, much in the way Netsky did. On gems and other surviving pieces, he is usually shown amusing himself with childhood play, sometimes driving a hoop, throwing darts, catching a butterfly, or flirting with a nymph. Another variation of Sasser, Sasser.E, was found to be circulating shortly after the arrest.

The traditional Christian depiction of a cherub is based on him. He immediately confessed to having written when he was a 17-year old not only Sasser, but also Netsky.AC, a variant of the Netsky worm. In painting and sculpture, Cupid is portrayed as a nude winged boy armed with a bow and a quiver of arrows. Sasser was at first believed to have been authored in Russia by the same person(s) who created another worm usually referred to as Lovsan, MSBlast or Blaster (due to the media), a connection indicated by code similarities between the two, but on May 7, 2004, 18-year old computer science student Sven Jaschan from Rotenburg, Lower Saxony was arrested for writing the worm. Some of the cults of Cupid suggested that Cupid (as son of Night and Hell, perhaps) mated with Chaos to produce men and gods alike, so the gods were the offspring of love. The X-ray department at Lund University Hospital had all their four layer X-ray machines disabled for several hours and had to redirect emergency X-rays to a nearby hospital. Additionally, his power was supposed even greater than his mother's, since he had dominion over the dead in Hades, Olympus. The British Coastguard had its electronic mapping service disabled for a few hours, and Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Post, and the European Commission also all had issues with the virus.

Cupid's cult was closely associated with Venus', and he was worshipped as seriously as she. The Nordic insurance company If and their Finnish owners Sampo Bank came to a complete halt and had to close their 130 offices in Finland. The other is a son of Nyx and Erebus, and he is known for riotous debauchery. flight company Delta Air Lines having to cancel several trans-atlantic flights because its computer systems had been swamped by the worm. He is a lively youth who delights in pranks and spreading love. The effects of Sasser include the news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) having all its satellite communications blocked for hours and the U.S. One is the son of Jupiter (Zeus) and Venus. Some technology specialists have speculated that the worm writers reverse-engineered the patch to discover the vulnerability, which would open millions of computers whose operating system have not been upgraded with the security update.

Throughout ancient mythological writing, there appear to be either two Cupids or two sides to the figure of Cupid. The LSASS vulnerability was patched by Microsoft in the April 2004 installment of its monthly security packages, prior to the release of the worm. Plato mentions two of these, and Hesiod's Theogony, the most ancient Greek theoography, says that Cupid was created coevally with Chaos and the earth. Several variants called Sasser.B, Sasser.C, and Sasser.D appeared within days (with the original named Sasser.A). Cicero provides three different lineages: son of Mercury (Hermes) and Diana (Artemis), son of Mercury and Venus (Aphrodite), and son of Mars (Ares in Greek mythology) and Venus. Microsoft's analysis of the worm indicates that it may also spread through port 139. There are differing stories about his parentage. The worm scans different ranges of IP addresses and connects to victims' computers primarily through TCP port 445.

. It spreads by exploiting a buffer overflow in the component known as LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) on the affected operating systems. He is also called Amor, Latin for love. Sasser was first noticed and started spreading in the wild on April 30, 2004. He is equated with the Greek God Eros and one of his Latin names is Eros. The specific hole Sasser exploits is documented by Microsoft in its MS04-011 bulletin, for which a patch had been released seventeen days earlier. In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love. Thus it is particularly potent in that it can spread without the help of the user, but it is also easily stopped by a properly configured firewall, or by downloading patches from Windows Update [1].

Like other recent worms, Sasser spreads by exploiting the system through a vulnerable network port. The Sasser worm is a computer worm that affects computers running vulnerable versions of the Microsoft operating systems Windows XP and Windows 2000.