The Inherent Psychology of virus creators
It’s a fairly common phenomenon. You open your mailbox and you see an enticing looking mail that gets your curiosity going and although you’ve been told by experienced netizens that the last thing you should do is open a funny looking e-mail, yet your curiosity gets the better of you and end up opening it.
The result is as predictable as Elizabeth Hurley in Versace and your computer gets infected by a virus.
The damage might be controlled by the virus protection software that you’ve installed but in many cases if you haven’t updated your Antivirus you’ll probably end up rebooting your system or in the worst case scenario you are going to have to probably get a new hard disk.
In any case the sheer hassle and the frustration that arises from an innocent act of opening a mail is quite painful in it’s after math.
Have you ever given it a thought that why does it happen? Why do viruses creep in and what purpose does it solve? A simple search on any search engine will tell you that there are numerous viruses that can affect your computer and that most of them are intentionally released.
Setting aside the conspiracy theories that viruses are the big corporations’ way of ensuring sales of spare parts and they are intentionally released to ensure that the service centers get a regular supply of customers,
A computer virus isn’t all that different from a regular virus that often seems to affect human beings leading to ailments like the common cold. The basic difference is that while the viruses that affect human beings are in existence because god put them there, a computer virus exists because a human being created it with a particularly malicious purpose in mind.
Whenever you’ve gotten a virus filled mail you’ve actually been targeted by some really malicious human being who was hell bent on creating mayhem in the cyber world. He or she actually wanted to put your PC out of action and derived a kind of sadistic pleasure from the fact that he or she had the power to inconvenience you in a way that you would be forced to acknowledge their power over you.
The fact that the perpetrators of such cyber violations are actually quite intelligent does not help matters much. The simply use their intelligence to hold a number of people at ransom and more often than not the payoff is a hard disk that crashes or a system that needs to be rebooted.
Just as there a number of scientists who are constantly working towards ensuring that we can find a cure for a number of diseases there a number of people who are constantly working towards developing antivirus software that would be of help to people whose computers are afflicted by viruses.
It is indeed unfortunate that more number of people engaged in developing viruses than there are people engaged in the act of getting rid of viruses.
This is because the developers of viruses achieve a kind of infamy that has the elements of fame along with the element of anonymity that makes their creation, i.e., the virus famous but they retain their anonymity.
At the end of the day a virus means a lot of inconvenience to a number of people and they are unable to do much about it other than install antivirus software.
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