What I wonder a lot, is that many of these creating computer viruses are kids with some computer knowledge.
I suspect there are people out there who have far more knowledge and could create viruses that could do great damage, maybe shut down the web or worse.
By making it a serious crime, I wonder how many kids would be so keen to mess around with viruses. Though to be honest, I am surprised how slow Microsoft and others are to respond. Surely with all the cash they have, they would pay people to go on the hackers sites, to see what the latest code is, so they could respond much faster.
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