Re: What is the motivation for Virus Writers?
From: Trevor (sales_at_logicians.com)
Date: 12/16/03
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Date: 16 Dec 2003 01:15:22 -0800
"Robert Moir" <bofh@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<O1C2$x1wDHA.2000@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> Trevor wrote:
>
> > The parallel is that victims are people who have no power at all in
> > both cases. We have lived with terror in the UK for decades with the
> > IRA (although now there is almost peace in Ireland). The IRA lost
> > support because it rarely attacking military, but normally civilians
> > in clubs, etc, or businesses (eg offices). They were called "soft
> > targets" instead of "hard targets."
> >
> > I cannot change XP, so why attack my PC and cost me $200 and a lot of
> > trouble?
>
> But as I alluded to in my other reply, very few virus authors are thinking
> about you and your $200 when they write a virus. Lets be clear about this,
> many more people write viruses and either destroy them without letting them
> loose (obviously the 2nd best outcome after not writing them at all), still
> more write them and send them to virus companies and don't let them loose
> "in the wild".
>
> Still more write them, show their friends, and claim a friend released the
> virus without their permission, in fact against their direct request. Some
> of these might even be telling the truth, though when they claim it happens
> more than once I have my doubts.
>
> Some authors are malicious, some are just dumb, some are naive, some are
> thoughtless, and some write and destroy their own viruses without doing any
> harm because they want to see how they work.
>
> Of my list, its only the first lot who are even remotely close to being
> terrorists (and as they don't kill people, I'm sorry, I think the comparison
> is still over the top), and the last class in my list aren't doing anybody
> any harm at all.
>
> --
Well I learned a lot on Saturday.
I brought my new PC with a top spec, and I was very pleased. I had it
built by a shop to my design, and when I got it home I was very happy.
Then the machine rebooted. I thought it was a software error, and when
it happened again, I knew it was serious. I searched google.com and
found a link with a remedy.
Then my PC kept rebooting, so I could not install anything. Then more
and more started going wrong. I slept on it, and tried again the next
day.
I got more angry and actually punched my keyboard. It smashed and I
had to buy a new one.
I took it to a PC guy who fixed everything.
I then when and purchased the top security I could find, and installed
every patch at microsoft.
Now my PC is great. I already took several orders using it.
And I can say - "Thank you Norton."
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