Thursday, September 08, 2005

What motivates a virus writer?

BBC Techdesk is running an article about the recently arrested creators of last month's Zotob virus, which talks about how the motivations of virus writers are changing. While the majority of virus writers used to be kids and teenagers, writing viruses for kicks or just to prove they could, more and more modern virus writers are motivated by a very different aspect: money.

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