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Posted by Peter Seiler on November 28, 2005, 12:25 pm
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what are the reasons/motivations for producing virus, malware, daware,
spyware etc.?
Socially, who are the people doing this?
Are there any statistics/ researches?
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by(e) PS
spam will be killed
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Posted by David H. Lipman on November 28, 2005, 1:34 pm
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| what are the reasons/motivations for producing virus, malware, daware,
| spyware etc.?
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| Socially, who are the people doing this?
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| Are there any statistics/ researches?
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Depends...
Bragging rights
Monetary gains
Malicious intent
Take for example a Dialing Trojan that calls on Toll Call offshore.
Take a Keylogger Trojan. It may capture you Credit Card number, username and
password.
I stronly suggest viewing the following powerPoint Presentation for additional
reasons of
intent.
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/HorrorShow-2005-Brazil.ppt
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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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Posted by Peter Seiler on November 29, 2005, 3:16 am
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[...]
> I stronly suggest viewing the following powerPoint Presentation for additional
reasons of
> intent.
> http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/HorrorShow-2005-Brazil.ppt
David and the others, THX for your kind feedback and information.
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by(e) PS
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Posted by Ant on November 28, 2005, 4:36 pm
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> what are the reasons/motivations for producing virus, malware, daware,
> spyware etc.?
Greed.
> Socially, who are the people doing this?
Spammers, scammers, assorted thieves, and others who see an easy way
to get rich quick but don't think or care about the consequences of
of their actions.
> Are there any statistics/ researches?
Have a look at these top 10 slimeballs:
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers.lasso
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Posted by Donny Broome on November 28, 2005, 9:58 pm
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Donny Broome
http://www.broomeman.com/tech/
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> what are the reasons/motivations for producing virus, malware, daware,
> spyware etc.?
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> Socially, who are the people doing this?
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> Are there any statistics/ researches?
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> --
> by(e) PS
> spam will be killed
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