Why do people write/spread viruses?
>From postings which have appeared in alt.comp.virus in the past: • they don’t understand or prefer not to think about the consequences for other people • they simply don’t care • they don’t consider it to be their problem if someone else is inconvenienced • they draw a false distinction between creating/publishing viruses and distributing them • they consider it to be the responsibility of someone else to protect systems from their creations • they get a buzz, acknowledged or otherwise, from vandalism • they consider they’re fighting authority • they like ‘matching wits’ with antivirus vendors • it’s a way of getting attention, getting recognition from their peers and their names (or at least that of their virus) in the papers and the Wild List • they’re keeping the antivirus vendors in a job How seriously you take some of these assertions is up to you….
