I'm more than convinced that the real people behind these fucking viruses are the anti-virus software companies themselves. Think about it....
You're an advanced programmer
You're approached by someone that says his company will pay you a cool million to write a virus and launch it. Okay, you have morals and say no, so they up the price to 3 million. Now you go for it.
The anti-virus companies rake in millions from sales of frantic users that have "learned their lesson and want to protect their systems from future harm"
Am I out to lunch? I think not.
And before you say "hey CD, YOU use Norton, don't you?" -- the answer is yes, but only because they threw it in for free when I bought my puter.
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