German police have raided the homes of five people who had been in contact with a teenager arrested last week on suspicion of creating the Sasser computer worm, a spokesman said.  Investigators "suspect that other people took part in spreading the worm. The Verden prosecutors office ordered five raids in the Rotenburg an der Wuemme region," police spokesman Detlef Ehrike said in a statement. <br><br>
"Two suspects have admitted receiving from the author of Sasser the source code for the Netsky worm," Ehrike said, adding that one of them had admitted to "taking part in spreading the Netsky worm." Police also seized several items during the raids, he said.  They face up to five years in prison for "computer sabotage" if found guilty of creating and spreading the computer worm...
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<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&printer=1&ncid=1212&e=1&u=/afp/20040512/tc_afp/internet_virus_germany&sid=96001018">Click here to read the full story from AFP at Yahoo.com</a><br><br><b>So far the Sasser / Netsky raids have not gone beyond German borders ( yet )...</b>