I was just wondering what drives people to ceate theses computer viruses,what do they get from it ?
2006-08-30 14:23:24 · 16 answers · asked by any 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
The biggest reason right now is financial, what the criminals do is send out spam or IM's that will download a virus that will allow them to control your computer. They for the most part they are not interested in you, but what you and hundreds of thousands of "zombie PC's" can do. A common tactic is to bombard an off shore gambling site with so much traffic that they can no longer do business. Then they extort money from them to turn off the attack, which they usually get, because there really isn't any legal recourse for the gambling sites to follow, because gambling sites are not legal in the U.S. They also can bring down other sites like CNN, and Bluefrog. There are researchers that create proof of concept viruses to allow anti-virus companies to stay ahead of the criminals. There are many more reasons, but getting large farms of Zombie PC's is most common, they also rent these farms out to people who do what ever they want to do with them.
2006-08-30 14:41:25 · answer #1 · answered by knujefp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-23 15:55:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an excellent proportion of the individuals who create computing device viruses do it for kicks and popularity. Then there the sensation of twisted satisfaction one gets from understanding you have created some thing that's inflicting human beings grief. there is probable some virus writers who do it for revenge against companies they do in contrast to. exciting actuality, the ordinary public of the viruses accessible objective Microsoft working structures. ask your self what proportion ft bill Gates stepped on throughout his upward thrust to the ideal?
2016-11-06 02:51:53 · answer #3 · answered by zubrzycki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not know about that, but a mate of mine got caught hackinhg the computers at Cambridge, well actually he got caught selling the answers to questions, and was thrown out. This is in the mid 90s. He was then recruted by the Government.
He now works for a "Private" security/computer firm, but is not allowed to talk about it.
2006-08-30 18:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by Frankie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of the current viruses / trojans are used to turn the infected PCs into spambots. As there's huge money in spam (because mugs keep buying the stuff advertised), there's your answer.
2006-08-30 14:35:38 · answer #5 · answered by philr999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
- Some people are Anti Microsoft...and that;s why they create the viruses...
- Some do them to obtain some information about us and steal our banking information, etc [trojans, spywares, and backdoors]
- Others are evil by nature or like to harm others
- Others do it to see how talented they are in infecting millions of computers
- The last group of virus makers are the antivirus companies themselves...they create the virus and the cure so that you are always in need of an antivirus [that's what I heard anyway]
2006-08-30 14:29:58 · answer #6 · answered by ...Sky the Limits... 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people think that the anti virus companies make or pay people to make these viruses to stay in business.
Other people make them just for kicks.
2006-08-30 14:26:04 · answer #7 · answered by IT Pro 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It feeds their twisted desire to hurt, maim and destroy, it is really the same urge that used to make people vandalise phone boxes and slash the seats on public transport - they gain nothing but spoil things for others.
2006-08-30 16:02:27 · answer #8 · answered by TC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They r after y bank details & even send u a email that looks like its from your bank all y do is deleted don't bounce it back to them then they know the e mail is active
2006-08-30 23:56:01 · answer #9 · answered by hounslow m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a conspiracy theory, but how about in the form of kickbacks from anti virus software companies?
2006-08-30 14:29:06 · answer #10 · answered by detecting_it 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋