The 20-year-old Samy Kamkar was sentenced to three years probation, three months of community service and a fine for creating a virus (
described ), which allowed him to trick the MySpace JavaScript filters and add about a million users as friends.
In addition, a young man who has pleaded guilty is prohibited from using the Internet for personal purposes. Kamkar himself said that he wrote a virus for fun, and the site did not suffer any damage, writes
SC Magazine .