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Story: Virus writers exchange coded insults

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I find the whole virus issue very suspicious. With new viruses
and their variants popping up weekly I find myself wondering
"who stands to benefit the most from viruses?", why would anyone
spend so much time and effort to create something that they could
never admit to creating?

Now, if I owned an anti-virus company I would depend on the weekly
creation of new viruses. Without the never ending creation and spread
of new viruses why would anyone purchase or renew their anti-virus
subscription service?

I believe that many viruses either directly or indirectly are created by
the very ani-virus companies that we believe to be the good guys.

Don't believe me? Check for yourself... Norton keeps an online log of
when new viruses are first found, if you compare many of these dates
to the dates that Norton adds the "fix" for the virus you should become
suspicious as well. In many cases Norton has a fix for a virus 2 hours
or less after it is first detected and some of these "Fixes" are released
at like 2am on a Sunday. How many programmers do you know that
would be willing to work on Sunday? At 2am? I don't know of any.

And why do we always seem to catch the kids who create variants of
viruses using code they found on the internet and never the guys who
posted the original code? It's not illegal to post a virus in source code
format now is it?

Regards,

Chris

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