Why do people create worms, viruses, Trojans, spy ware, etc?

Answer 1

It's all about making money. Perhaps Eugene Kaspersky, founder of anti-virus maker Kaspersky Labs said it best, " It's a different world today. 10 years ago, we were fighting against smart kids who hacked as a hobby. Now, we're dealing with criminal gangs that control your computer to make money. Different world, different protections."

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

to steal you private information and without those worms, viruses, Trojans, spy ware the anti virus company couldn't make money

Answer 4

Lots of reasons. Some people do it because they're mean, though there are few. Most of them want your information like credit cards. Others, i've heard people are practicing and let them out to see what they can do. It is rather easy to make a malicious program, so there are a lot of script kiddies out there that make small little files (batch files) and say it's a virus. They try to hurt peoples computers by it. That's pretty much it.

Answer 5

When i was younger i made a few just to use on my friends for fun.. yes i also (after a period) gave them the fix... and i gave it to a few ppl that i didnt like aswell...

But the majority of time it was just for fun and they didnt do any permanant damage.

Answer 6

Did you know you could thwart 99.99% of this using the Internet Freedom Disk. You could thwart 95% of it using the Internet Freedom Disk plus the PUMP.

At least with the PUMP you are not inconvenienced so much.

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Answer 7

In the olden days they did it to do it, and fun.

Today, gangs look for talent to create for greenbacks. $$$$$$$$

Answer 8

They have too much time on their hands