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What motivates a virus writer?
Replies: 8 — Last Post Nov. 12, 2008 3:15pm by Rhapsody
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It's like... with most other kinds of crime, the object is to gain something as in robbery(money), rape(sexual pleasure), terrorism(some political cause), and so on. Not very often is the intent simply to destroy someone else's shit who they don't even know. The criminal gets absolutely nothing out of it.

Especially someone who is smart enough to write a virus... what the fuck makes them want to do it? I can't fathom what goes in in their minds.

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i think they get the pleasure of knowing that they might have destroyed someones life

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It demonstrates their capabilities.

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Quote: from allsmiles at 8:41 am on Nov. 8, 2008
It demonstrates their capabilities.

To who? When you get a virus you don't know who created it.

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They just want to be a dick and ruin things for other people. They do it and feel all empowered.

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You don't know anything about crime or criminals. At all.

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They wanna see how clever they are


they could have got sacked from an anti virus company :P

they could be employed by someone/company etc..

could just be a normal "job"

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Now, most viruses are also coupled with keyloggers, etc.

And its more the "can I do this" than the malicious intent.

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I can tell you what goes through some of their minds, seeing as I know a few who aspire to write viruses. For some people it is experimentation, for others they do it for the sake of doing it and just fuck up someones system, yes there are people who do it for that reason.

Ohh and most Anti-Virus companies hire people to write viruses for those companies, these type of people do it for the profit behind it. Most viruses, believe it or not are written by anti-virus software companies.

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