Chinese antivirus war ends in death sentence

By Liam Tung on Dec 14, 2010 10:30 AM
Filed under Security

Vendor makes virus, rival blamed.

A territory war between two Chinese antivirus companies has resulted in a death sentence for a senior Beijing official.

Yu Bing, former director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, has reportedly been given a two year suspended death sentence for using state systems to fraudulently trump up business for antivirus vendor, Rising Antivirus.

Yu was found to have taken large bribes from the company in 2005 in exchange for advising the public to download its software and trumping up charges against fledgling rival Micropoint.

The bureau director had ordered his department to issue a public virus alert which it claimed could be resolved by downloading Rising Antivirus software.

While the virus was real, it was later found to have been developed by Rising Antivirus, according to reports in Chinese media.

However, Yu blamed Micropoint's boss for releasing the virus and later handed the company's technology over to Rising Antivirus.

Yu's final move against Micropoint was to advise China's only antivirus testing facility to reject its application for assessment.

The ordeal was said to have cost Micropoint an estimated US$4.5 million.

Chinese antivirus war ends in death sentence

5 comments in this discussion

"@trimlab: we vote em in here in Oz, we don't make em accountable, they do their stuff, we vote em in again. It is called democracy. It is up to us the voters and citizens to hold them accountable. ..."

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Comments: 5

frances Dec 14, 2010 11:55 AM	"A two year suspended death sentence"???? Were they going to kill him for only two years, then let him go? Or were they going to hang him for two years? Odd wording.
Ace Dec 14, 2010 12:12 PM	With skullduggery and corruption of that level, Yu Bing would fit right in to NSW politics!
Maxxi2 Dec 14, 2010 12:19 PM	The death sentence has been handed down, and now suspended for two years pending no further similar criminal acts. Otherwise he gets the chop if he reoffends.
trimlad Dec 14, 2010 6:19 PM	2 year suspended death sentence...That is an extremely harsh punishment, imagine the mind shatteringly horric internal conflict suffered by a politician who has to be honest and in-corrupt for 730 days in a row, impossible to comprehend. They could have just shot the weasel and have done with it, however they have decided to apply Orwells Room 101 torture instead, outstanding. Imagine what a lovely world we could have if that was the standing law all Pollies and other assorted bottom feeders were held accountable to.
Maxxi2 Dec 14, 2010 7:30 PM	@trimlab: we vote em in here in Oz, we don't make em accountable, they do their stuff, we vote em in again. It is called democracy. It is up to us the voters and citizens to hold them accountable. We keep buying Chinese goods cos they are cheap, we assist to keep the Chinese pollies in govt. We do not hold them accountable either. But the majority of Aussies are happy to sit back and let them do their thing until they do something that disturbs our comfort levels or hits our hip pockets, then we react... Too little too late too seldom. But hey, life is nicer here as a citizen than in Beijing...