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Why do people write viruses and other mobile malicious code? The answer isn't as simple as it used to be.

April 24th, 2009
By Chad Perrin

The image of virus writers as intelligent kids with too much time on their hands resorting to digital vandalism to entertain themselves persists. Years ago, making such a guess about why people write viruses might have been accurate most of the time, but the world has moved on. The writers of viruses and other mobile malicious code are many and varied, and their reasons are as wide-ranging as they are, themselves.

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