What motivates people to create computer viruses?

[Ben J]

Is it self pleasure to try and destroy other people PC's, or are viruses produced to keep the anti-virus market alive? Or something else?

[calmanger768]

lack of life

[onesexysquirrel17]

People who are fat, stinky, have bad acne and play World Of Warcraft all day long. They have no potential and no girlfriend. They are sexually frustrated and need to take their frustrations out on people's computers....

[souperbloo]

Attention.

[Mag R]

weird mind

[theguyversh]

i think some ppl jsut don't have a life. they're sitting there in their mom's basement creating viruses and sending them to ppl. then they brag about how they destroyed ppls computer that day to the other stupid hackers.

thats my idea. take it or leave it. lol

[Orlando]

You know, I've been wondering this myself. Personally, I think hackers should be stoned to death, because why, other than to be a complete a$$hole, would you create something like a virus to destroy millions of people's PCs out there for absolutely no reason?

[bob_geldoff19]

Money.

[Rambo]

Many enjoy seeing others in misery. This is why they developed the computer virus beacuse they just love to see people like u and me frustrated out of are minds beacuse are stupid computers don't work.

[Patricia S]

Viruses and the people who write them are very intelligent people and if they used their brains to do something more constructive than trying to destroy everyones computer then they would go very far in life. Some do it for fun!! just to see if they "can" and others do it out of pure malice...