Why do hackers create viruses?
Virus writers intend to be destructive. They get some sort of kick out of causing as much damage as possible, from the relative anonymity of their computer keyboards. In addition, some developers create viruses to prove their technical prowess. Among certain developers, writing a “successful” virus provides a kind of bragging right, and demonstrates, in some warped fashion, that the writer is especially skilled. Unfortunately, the one attribute that virus writers apparently lack is ethical sense. Virus programs can be enormously destructive, and it takes a peculiar lack of ethics to deliberately perpetrate such destruction on such a wide scale.
