well guys whats your opinion on this one? what is the real reason behind spreading a virus and spyware? how people are benefited from it? Whois actually creating these stuffs?

I'd like to hang whoever's designing the friggen things. I think I have a virus that McCafee can't recognize, because some strange stuff is going on. It's my fault I have the virus, or at least had it, but I still somehow blame the f*** who designed it.

I did hear, a while back, about a teenage kid, maybe 17, creating this extremely lethal virus and being caught. Apparently it would completely destroy your hard drive. At least I think that's what it was. People probably derive personal satisfaction from viruses just like vandalists.

I think it is, as Butler said, a vandalism type of thing. People like to destroy crap. A lot of times it's unhappy employees who write viruses and unleash them on their companies.

Virises are mainly to just be annoying and delete and mess up things on peoples computeres. Where SpyWare are there to be able to gather information to steal information from you.

some says that...the virus is actually created by the anti virus software company...they spread the virus and by this way...the customer will by their product....

Viruses aren't a problem if you're smart about how you browse. I got one virus a really long time ago, and not a single one since then. If you stay away from torrents and porn sites, you'll be cool.

Ive been running for years without virus protection and I have yet to get a virus.

Their are numerous number of reasons for creating viruses and spywares, the main reasons are NOT to annoy people and mess up your hardware/software etc however the reasons that i could think of are

(a) Viruses, especially worms have innate ability to replicate themselves over a network. So, by placing a single worm i am getting the control of possibly thousands of workstations. Now, why is it important to control this number of workstations. Answer is simple, DoS or Denial of Service Attack. I don't know how much you know about it, but to put it in simple words it's a brute attack where you access a specific website with a lot of workstations simultaneously, ultimately bringing the website down. Why would one do it? Mainly because of money, people pay hackers to do this stuff on their competitors and possibly your PC is part of a DoS attack right now.

(b) Personal Information, a very solid reason for making viruses. Virus coders would make virus to get your personal information and then would sell it to other companies. Sometimes it involves even credit card numbers etc.

(c) I would agree with infinity_grimm, it's true most of the biggest companies in Anti-Virus software department actually make and release viruses to capture the market. They say its Business, and sadly it IS!

(d) Lastly, people do it for fun,vandalism, religious or belief extremism etc.

You just have to watch .

I check my Temp Folder before I turn my computer off.

I find some interesting files. I get rid of them right away.

There are a variety of viruses out there. Some of them harvest information. Some of them are simply designed to destroy.

Most viruses have defense systems that neutralize your computer's ability to remove them.

The reason that so many are currently in existence is because over 80% of the internet is pornographic material. As we all know, porn and viruses go together like...well, I can't think of a good analogy, they just go together - trust me.

While you are viewing porn, the actors aren't the only things being penetrated. Viruses are laying siege to your computer and ravaging its defenses. You're just too busy to realize it.

Once you're infected, it's extremely easy for you to infect others. Especially if you're doing it at work or while connected to any sort of network.