Prosecution demands 3-year probation period In their closing remarks on Thursday, the state prosecutor and lawyer defending the Sasser computer worm author disagreed on what should happen to the 19-year-old German teenager if he commits a crime while on probation.Sven Jaschan has been on trial since Tuesday in the district court in Verden, Germany, where he faces charges of computer sabotage, data manipulation and disruption of public systems.The state prosecutor is demanding a probation period of three years during which time the accused hacker, Sven Jaschan, would be required to complete 200 hours of public service, the court said Thursday in a statement. If, during the probation, Jaschan commits another crime, he would be subject to two years of confinement in a juvenile detention center. Jaschan’s defense lawyer, however, is seeking a confinement period of only one year, should his client commit a crime while on probation. The lawyer said the teenager had no criminal intentions when he created the computer worm.The court intends to reach a verdict Friday and announce a sentence that can differ from what the prosecution and defense are seeking, according to Verden District Court spokeswoman Katharina Krützfeldt.Jaschan could also face civil lawsuits brought against him by companies whose IT systems were infected by the computer worm, Krützfeldt said in an earlier interview. At the start of his trial on Tuesday, Jaschan reiterated his confession to creating last year’s Sasser computer worm, which crashed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide.He was arrested in May 2004 at the family’s home in Waffensen, Germany, after Microsoft Corp. received a tip from an informant seeking a reward from the software company. After the arrest, Jaschan acknowledged that he created the worm.Sasser, a self-executing piece of software code, exploited a hole in a component of Windows called the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service, or LSASS. The worm scanned the Internet searching for vulnerable computers. Software DevelopmentSecurityEndpoint ProtectionIdentity Management SolutionsMalware