do they only attack windows systems? Is it not perhaps the antivirus developers who write it to force you to buy their products or is it the writers of other operating systems who use it to try and persuade you to use the operating systems
2006-10-04 20:04:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
If most people in the world use Microsoft Windoze then you will find that it will be the most heavily attacked..makes sense, whats the point of making a virus for a system like mac osx or linux when they only have a 20% to 30% share of the market between them. Virus writers sometimes do it for financial gain or mainly because they can, then of course you get the "script kiddies" a term used to describe people who slightly modify other peoples code and call it their own, or use virus creation tools...
I believe you are going down the conspiracy theory route when you say that antivirus developers create viruses, trust me there are enough people out there creating them with the developers making them to!!
For a little bit more insight try the wikipedia link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus
2006-10-04 22:01:48 · answer #1 · answered by Asher 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-22 08:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Virus writers do so in hopes of gaining fame, initiation into virus writers guilds and some for hopes of obtaining personal info such as credit card info. Microsoft has even hired virus writers in hopes of making Windows more secure. Ever watch the show series it takes a thief to catch a thief?
2006-10-04 20:14:33 · answer #3 · answered by Superman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is a combination of both. I know I would write a virus and advertise that my $50 software is the only that can cure it if I had the time. I also would also develop viruses for other OSes I don't like if I had the time as well. But mostly I would do it to prove to myself that I can.
2006-10-04 20:08:58 · answer #4 · answered by jkomets 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Modern day viruses and malware are often made by organized internet crime gangs, mostly in Eastern Europe and Russia. The reason is profit: denial of service attacks, credit card # theft, identity theft, creating spam mail botnets, selling extortion-ware.
It is an urban-legend that major anti-virus makers are creating the virus, that story has been circulating for years.
2006-10-04 21:57:27 · answer #5 · answered by jibberjabar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is: WHO? They are programmers. ANY person who is capable to make a program is a "CANDIDATE" to be a virus programmer/writer. But the true writer are those can make self-replicating programs. Yes, they became idiot, because first they are creating 'good' programs and only then they creating 'bad' programs for various reasons...
2006-10-05 00:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by VBACCESSpert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many differen't parties out there with their own agenda
unfortunatley from rouge programmers from North Korea to a
13 year old named Skip who gets his rocks off of causing as
much chaos as he can.
2006-10-05 17:27:26 · answer #7 · answered by markm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah you are right. Most of the tough-to-go virus are developed by reputed antivirus companies, with McAfee being the traditional leader.
2006-10-04 21:03:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't know who they are either, bit I'd like to have some target practice on them and their computers.
2006-10-04 20:07:22 · answer #9 · answered by Eldude 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God knows, babe...
just like the question"eggs first or chicken first?"
Who knows...
2006-10-04 20:19:15 · answer #10 · answered by Coffee's coffee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋