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[harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:17:12 +0800 Craig Ringer wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:50 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:

> >  Viruses are tiny malicious programs written by unemployed software
> > developers because companies like Microsoft take the market hostage and
> > make it difficult for people to see how using their talent for
> > creativity instead of destruction can have positive rewards.  
> 
> While imaginitive, I'm inclined to doubt the factual basis for that.
> Where's your evidence?
> 
> What I'm seeing currently, and what the AV companies and security
> "experts" seem to think, is that increasing amounts of virus/malware
> activity is driven by strong commerical interests in the grey areas of
> legalilty (spyware/adware) and outright illegal (phishing/spam
> zombies/DDoS zombies). There's a thriving *market* in zombie computers,
> for example.

I think Craig's observation is well covered in this article:

Silent working of the brain gangs
Date: March 28 2005
SMH
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2005/03/27/1111862257762.html

All the best
Harry

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