I would like to know why internet viruses are made, is the reason mere sadism or any thing else? Someone?

Answer 1

I believe they are usually created by computer geeks who are trying to exploit vulnerablities in Microsoft products. Microsoft is considered the evil giant in the computer field that all the small guys want to take down.

Many viruses and spyware are created and spread by companies that sell anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, kind of like setting a fire, then selling extinquishers.

Answer 2

This is a rather broad question.

My belief though is that viruses based on the intent of harming a user's PC (rather than exploiting a bug) may be caused by a person's curiousity and sheer maliciousness. There may be other reasons than simply because they don't like others or they love to dish out cyber pain.

Here's a clipping of one virus writer's interview:
"Do you think that coding viruses has any ethical or moral implications?
Writing technically new and innovative viruses is like writing exploits for new programs. Coming up with new ideas advances the Internet, since it becomes more prepared against real attacks. I don't see anything wrong with saying, "Hey! This can be abused! There is a bug! You are not prepared for this!" without doing a single cent of real damage."

Another article you may be interested in:
http://www.textfiles.com/virus/bdinterv.iew

Answer 3

buck is correct anti-virus companies make viruses so it messes up peoples computer and then they would buy there software... the next reason is that they use it for hacking.... another reason is that that someone might wanna take revenge on someone tat messed up there comptuer (for fun) lol ... next they want to send viruses through cyper sapce so they can hack into government systems to get some confidential files....

Answer 4

I've asked this question before to a computer person. She said she didn't know but it may simply be practice. If they can get into average citizens' computers, they can learn how to get into larger systems and on and on. I think thats a good possibility. But there is probably an element of just being an a-hole