Who Actually Creates These Viruses?

Ladywriter1968

My Question is very simple: Who actually creates, writes these viruses?

Is it a group of sad people that sit at pc all day thinking what virus can they create next?

Or is it the system that creates the virus itself by generic or something?

Cause there are always new viruses and to think that people are actually sitting there every day thinking up new ways to attack others pcs is sad.

The_Grandmaster

Well there is potentially a lot of money from creating virus/malware. For example key loggers to record what you type including email address, home address, name, credit card numbers etc; malware which 'forces' you to pay up to get rid of another 'infection', diallers to call a premium numbers...

CHR15

Geeks for the fun of it or Geeks to harvest personal info as above.

HO87

The_Grandmaster wrote: »

Well there is potentially a lot of money from creating virus/malware. For example key loggers to record what you type including email address, home address, name, credit card numbers etc; malware which 'forces' you to pay up to get rid of another 'infection', diallers to call a premium numbers...

Quite true but apart from the the Eastern Europeans/Far East types creating those for a purpose many have been created by teenagers eager to show their prowess by crashing your PC and causing you to lose you entire photograph collection etc etc. Generally the discovery of a single part of their anatomy or rather is real use is a complete cure. Doesn't stop you wanting to strangle them though.

dug123

Norten (Symantec). A few years ago I read that they invent and spread a lot of virus type software. In the first instance they are then the only company that can disinfect your PC and it therefore helps their sales.
It makes sense in a sick kind of way.
If I go back about 5 years I had Norton security and it is the only time I have ever had a virus (which Norton sorted out, on 2 pc's). Since then I have used AVG, Kaspersky, Microsoft essentials etc and never had one since.

aliEnRIK

It would make absolute sense that certain anti virus companies would design viruses. Corruption is rife everywhere

kwikbreaks

It's Skynet increasing its capacity in preparation....

diable

The Russian !!!!! fund a lot of geeks in Russia to invent new viruses that can infect your PC and steal you data.

Ladywriter1968

Well I was curious and could not believe it, there are people on you tube that show others how to write viruses. My god. at this rate will be thousands, as you know how many people watch you tube. I just typed in virus and it came with with all these people on there showing videos of how to write a virus. I was only curious cause I thought if you can write them, then you would know how to disable them and have more understanding of them. Maybe even turn the tables around on the people that write them and rather then them doing this to innocent people that to write a virus that back fires on them and it pings back on them instead and shuts down their system, see how they like it. Teach them a lesson.

Ladywriter1968

so for eg, say some one sent a virus to your computer, you could have like a protection virus that is safe on your pc, but when it sees an attack of another virus entering your system, it actually sends the virus that the person sent to you back to its original owner before it can do any damange and shuts down them and does not affect your pc. I wonder if such programs are possible?

They do it with human viruses now. Like a snake bite with another snake bite but thru a jab. The Flu jab to help protect against flu. So what about a Virus that pings their virus back to them, or even a special program that can do this?

I wonder if anyone has tried or thought about this. What do you think? I guess it does not have to be a virus as such, just some sort of program. I think it would teach them a lesson and that would stop it all.

23n1th

I find it surprising that anyone with a moderate experience of the internet would find it shocking that people are discussing this sort of thing. ATM theres no overt censorship of the internet.

Theres loads of different motivations for writing malware. Now a days I would say the main motivation is money. Theres big money to be made with these things. The files on your system are collateral damage, they dont care about you and these attacks aren't aimed specifically at you.

The computer that "sent" you the malware will more than likely be a computer controlled by someone other than the owner who would be unaware, so sending the virus back (if that was possible) would just reinfect an the already infected computer of some innocent person, making you as bad as the person controlling that computer.

I think the nearest you're going to come to the program you're talking about is an antivirus program, though it wont send it back