I wrote this post for my friend in Quezon City who accidentally visited this blog and dropped an email for me, asking me this question: why are they creating viruses, worms and the likes?

I don’t why he’s asking this to me. He’s not a student anymore and he’s not even working in technology related works. I just assume that he’s one of the victims of the viruses, or worms or the likes. And maybe he also heard about the worms embedded on Wikipedia’s pages or on Google’s Email Discussion.

Now, talking about the reasons why programmers create viruses, worms and the likes… Reasons varies actually from one programmer to another.

1. They write this kind of codes as part of their research.
2. These are just pranks, vandalism etc
3. A way of spreading words ie announcement, greetings, political message etc
4. They use them for extortion, theft etc
5. A way of testing a product, application or any software.
6. The way to attack one’s application, works, job, etc

Just like the real bacteria, viruses or any microorganism, not all created codes like these are not for bad intentions. There are also viruses created to correct the malfunction of a program or to destroy other viruses.

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