Ok seriously... Don't you think people who make computer viruses and spyware should be shot??

Question

Honestly.. If they know they do it.. don't you think anyone who makes spyware and viruses should be shot?

You know they are still alive somewhere in the world.. don't you want to find them and shoote them?

IIIIIII Totally DO!!!!!!!!

peekay, your argument would not stand in court.

Lets not forget that someone created that virus to mess up peoples' computers, AND to spread to other computers. Its not the victim's fault, If a victim is shot, they are not charged with the crime..
Obviously, since the virus is doing its job, the person who told it to do that should be shot. Not the people who are being effected by it.

Answer 1

i feel quite the opposite, i think the people who blindly run any old attachment in their email should be shot - 99% of viruses only exist because most people don't have common sense when online.

very few modern viruses have the ability to spread without some naive computer user running something before checking it.

if i can run windows without antivirus software and never fall foul of one simply because i've a little knowledge about how they work then so can everyone else, virus infection rates would drop to the floor...but then who would norton have to scare into buying their multimillion dollar generating products if that happened?

EDIT:
my argument doesn't need to stand up in court, i've never written a virus so i'm unlikely to end up in court charged with writing one. but you've missed what my 'argument' is anyways, which was that with VERY basic knowledge about programs and how they operate the vast majority of infections wouldn't occur in the first place - since when has ignorance been a valid excuse for anything? well, it's never been in the country i live.

if the death sentence was brought into force the world over, do you think all crime would just stop overnight? creating viruses that get out onto the internet is already a crime in alot of countries but people still do it.

people who ultimately infect their OWN computers by opening attachments from people they don't know all because an email tells them they'll get free porn or something equally as dubious defies common sense. no dummy = no infection.

in the same way that the aids virus gains most of it's victims from stupid people taking unnecessary risks, the same applies to computer virii - there are (a few) worms that target operating system holes to get into a pc, but modern email and p2p viruses are stupid - and windows code will not run on it's own.

there is a difference between spyware and viruses, both in the way they operate and what they do - spyware is infinitely worse than a virus, harder to get rid of, and they don't simply reside on your system but watch your browsing habits, steal your credit card information, log your keystrokes, steal your passwords - they aren't created by teenagers to see what'll happen, but by huge online corporations with no morals...i'd rather have a virus any day.

think i'm joking? in 2005 sony music (yes, THAT sony music) were responsible for installing spyware on the machines of alot of windows users without permission when they started to put autorun spyware on their music cds which would install in the background of computers without the user being any the wiser:
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/31/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights-management-gone-too-far.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal

if a billion dollar a year company thinks it's fine to install spyware on your pc against your will, and you've PAID for the priviledge of becoming a victim then why worry about teenage virus writers?

Answer 2

Lets understand things here. Did you know the websites like Yahoo and YahooMail MSN, NetZero to name a few and ALL OTHERS I KNOW MAKE MONEY AND EXIST because of some sort of snooping devices planted right in from of your eyes with YOUR OWN Microsoft Windows InternetExplorer software???Simply put they wouldnt exist without the ability for viruses and trogans and ad ware. That is what funds them!!!!

You have in your computer Windows Software Intenet Explorer a program called Active X, or Active Exchange of files, software etc. This program allows capability of an outside computer to literally GET INTO YOUR COMPUTER.

All viruses, Trogans, Snooping Programs and the like either use Active X or Cookies to do their work. Those are Windows Programs intended for that usage.

See for yourself!!! Go to Tools, IntenetOptions, Security, Custom, SEE ACTIVE X there. Go on same place to Privacy see the Cookie capability there?

Amazing to me how few people know about ActiveX and Cookie Track abilities.

So do away with all that capability and you have no useful Web.

Answer 3

I think that when demands on Anti-virus programs drops down company's start to hire hackers to send out new virus so the can List the new virus on there site and brag about how there software discovers and removes the virus. Also shooting the virus makers isn't a solution they should be sent to jail for life. Internet hacking and virus programs will not stop unless the Internet disappears

Answer 4

Yeah, it's a pretty horrible thing to do; however, as a programmer, I can understand where they're coming from. They find a security hole, right? It gives them an extreme sense of self-appreciation to know that their knowledge was smart enough to spread across the entire globe. Maybe they are depressed individuals.

If I saw one of these people standing by the side of a spammer though, I'd shoot the spammer.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

no; it would be much more fun to reprogram their virus to steal their financial information (their stolen money + their original money) back to those it was taken from in the first place (if they used the virus to steal money).

or more generally, to jam their system up so slow that it takes weeks to even install an antivirus.

Answer 7

Shot? No. However, something equally as annoying and inconvenient should happen to them!

Answer 8

Yes, but let Cheney torture them first.

Answer 9

shooting them is kinda harsh, but they should be put in prison for life.

Answer 10

Them and telemarketers.