Re: What is the motivation for Virus Writers?
From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 12/18/03
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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:20:28 -0500
Speak to the shop that built it. Any shop that built to order, and failed
to patch the machine to date, much less turn on the firewall, ought to be
presented with your bill.
"Trevor" <sales@logicians.com> wrote in message
news:88a9861a.0312160115.d03d408@posting.google.com...
> "Robert Moir" <bofh@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> > 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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