There are so many computer viruses that gives us troubles while we are using our computer or using any IT products. Everyday there are so many new viruses that discovered. Do you think they are just created by people who wants to make money by selling their anti-virus softwares. Don’t you wonder how they know the solutions/cures to those viruses if they don’t have knowledge on how the viruses works and the destructions it may create.
Is it true that computer viruses are created to market anti-virus software?
There are so many computer viruses that gives us troubles while we are using our computer or using any IT products. Everyday there are so many new viruses that discovered. Do you think they are just created by people who wants to make money by selling their anti-virus softwares. Don’t you wonder how they know the solutions/cures to those viruses if they don’t have knowledge on how the viruses works and the destructions it may create.
6 Responses
June 4th, 2009 at 1:35 am
maybe, but alot of them just like the challenge of fixing problems and tryen to fix it….
supply and demand i guess….
June 7th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Viruses are more or less created by College computer tech freshman with nothing better to do than create malicious programs simply because they can and they are bored…..
They then create the Anti-Virus programs when they are seniors because they actually have the skills required to solve the viruses they created as Freshman…..So they create these programs and earn money for the problems they created years earlier…
It’s kinda like self-employment with twice the fun!
June 7th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
virus just like an harmfull software. its make to use some prog just like C,C++,Java, e.t.c.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
False.
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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Most of today’s Internet criminals are operating from Russia, China and Southern America. Over the next five years, there will be a significant increase in attacks from Central America, India, China and Africa, according to a prediction from security specialists.
Malware creation hotspots growing in the former Soviet countries (such as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia). Other major areas of criminal activity are Brazil and China, which have large numbers of individuals with sophisticated computing skills but without the job opportunities to make a living for themselves in the IT sector. Online crime often presents a more lucrative path to raising living standards for people like these.
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The anti-virus vendors have quite enough work to do just keeping up with the new malware variants these organised internet crime gangs release. The vendors do not need to produce their own malware.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
NO!! This is just a dumb conspiracy theory. Viruses are created by people with malicious intent. The reason your anti-virus program knows about all he viruses is because it has a couple lines of code from the virus in its signature database. The signature database gets built by people sending virus samples into the company.
June 11th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
This is nothing more than a conspiracy theory as one answer already stated. With all the companies that produce anti-virus software…how would they split the pie?
Virii and other malware is created by demented idiots who have nothing better to do than to make the lives of others miserable. If an individual has the programming skills and talents to create the advanced virus files we see today, they could just as easily use those skills to create software that would generate income for them!
Guess the propensity for evil outweighs any potential profits from a legitimate software application.
The reason the anti-virus companies know how to deal with most malware is research and testing of software alogrithms and such. Contrary to what you believe, not all virii or malware can be addressed so there are a few that don’t get fixed until long after they have done their damage.
CeeJ