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I think I have an answer.
The people that write viruses are for the most part more computer literate
than most other people and could and may very well be employed by any of the
small or not so small software companies writing code.
Here's where the virus part comes in.  They need or they just want more
attention than they are getting
(they are a small fish in a very big pond)
Now they write a virus in their spare time and the whole world knows about
them, at least indirectly.
This does not explain all virus writers, but I am certain it explains some
of them.

> Hello:
>     But that begs the question why people create viruses (as opposed to
> software that would be truly useful) in the first place.
> Bruce D. Von Deylen
> South Bend, IN  USA
>
> e-mail: brucevd<at>compuserve.com
> Website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/brucevd/pcguy1.htm
>
> "Mike Beggs" <nospam@all.never.no-way> wrote in message
> news:Xns9027A3B3EBFCE1M0I0K5E6B9@194.168.222.8...
> > "Charlie Sapp" <crsapp@attglobal.net> wrote in
> > <3a5d0bb6_3@news1.prserv.net>:
> >
> > <snipped irrelevant blurb>
> >
> > I never could work out why people have gone to all that trouble coding
> > replication mechanisms in the likes of KAKWorm & ILU when all you need
to
> > do is put "Please forward this to everyone in your address book" at the
> > bottom.
> > --
> >   Mike