Do we still have viruses / spyware on the internet because......

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#1 gamedude2020
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.....the anti-virus software companies are creating and helping to create more viruses? Think about it, if spyware etc was finally removed from the internet once and for all, the anti virus industry would die.

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#2 k2theswiss
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the software company's don't have to help create viruses... people do it to get in people computers to do what they please.
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#3 Gaming-Planet
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Yep, it's all true. I help create the viruses too.

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#4 deactivated-57e5de5e137a4
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No. Some of the scam companies trying to sell "SuPer Antivirus 2009" might be, but the big anti virus companies aren't.
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#5 Tu_Quoque
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You're right! It all makes sense now! There's a possible explanation! Now I can latch on to an improbable, conspiracy-theory-style explanation instead of the probable, proven explanation that teenage kids with too much time on their hands just want to screw with peoples' bank accounts :shock:
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#6 thattotally
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Yeah of course, that's like saying doctors are trying to make new strands of cancer everday so that people can continue being sick :roll: (actually... the conspiracy is in drug companies that do horrible things for maximum profit, but I don't know)

We still have viruses/worms/trojans because people are evil (to put it very mildly) and they actually do it for a laugh. That's one of the things wrong with the world, that attitude. We can only combat it by doing good and not giving importance for that kind of behavior.

What I'm personally vexed about is that we can't sue an antivirus company if our computer gets spyware. What's the point of paying for the software if it's not doing it's job right is that not true? Who's with me? I mean one might as well just have one of those free anti virus programs.

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#7 Atheists_Pwn
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usually the viruses are made for some kind of profit. anti viruses are made to not work. If you pay for an anti virus, then i lol. if you think AVG is good, then i lol even harder. anti viruses are only ok if you're looking for very primitive viruses, most of the newer ones are made with anti viruses in mind. What would YOU do if YOU made a virus? you're better off making an account thats really low level, and using that, and set up a firewall.
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Yeah of course, that's like saying doctors are trying to make new strands of cancer everday so that people can continue being sick :roll: (actually... the conspiracy is in drug companies that do horrible things for maximum profit, but I don't know)

We still have viruses/worms/trojans because people are evil (to put it very mildly) and they actually do it for a laugh. That's one of the things wrong with the world, that attitude. We can only combat it by doing good and not giving importance for that kind of behavior.

What I'm personally vexed about is that we can't sue an antivirus company if our computer gets spyware. What's the point of paying for the software if it's not doing it's job right is that not true? Who's with me? I mean one might as well just have one of those free anti virus programs.

thattotally

cancer isnt a virus...

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#9 Treflis
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Or there are people who create viruses and such inorder to gain access to ones privatelife so they can steal ones identity and money, place them in debt and then move onwards to the next person to rob and the Companies that create anti-virus software is at a constant battle to develop programs that can handle the viruses and more advanced ones that the other people make to breach through the software.
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#10 markop2003
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They don't create them but they know the vulnerabilities of their programs well and don't seem to patch them up. Security firm iDefense won the race to zero, a competition involving modifying viruses to bypass anti virus scanners, in 5 hours they managed to make a virus to bypass 9 anti viruses.
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#11 Diablo-B
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I didn't even know that there were still viruses and spyware on the internet. Ever since I switched to a Mac thats one less thing I have to worry about.
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#12 anh5617
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if u think about it that kinda does make sense you know

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#13 JustPlainLucas
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cancer isnt a virus...

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Some are results of a virus, though.
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#14 MoonMarvel
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No. Millions of people do that for them, anti virus software will always be needed because hackers will find a way around it. They dont just give up.