Spokesman Frank Federau for Lower Saxony police said the man was arrested Friday. Federau said the suspect admitted to programming the worm but authorities did not know if he had created all the versions of it.
"He made a confession and the experts at Microsoft have now confirmed that he was the cause of this worm," said Federau. He said he did not have any details of how the suspect was found.
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Separately, police in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said they had arrested a 21 year-old man who confessed to programming the Internet worm "Agobot" which was later renamed as "Phatbot."
A spokesman for the State Police Office in Stuttgart said the arrests were not connected.
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