Anyone who has ever dealt with a computer virus,worm or whatever new term might be just around the corner,has probably asked the question "why would anyone do that?" Most of the early computer viruses weren't too dangerous and were often done more as a type of prank than anything malicious,and of course to prove it could be done. One of the first viruses was developed by a 9th grade teenager in 1981. In 1986 another virus was developed by two Pakistani brothers trying to keep their software out of the hands of pirates,but when it infected a boot sector it left a message with the brothers business information and phone number with instructions to contact them for the vaccination. In my opinion that was the start of what has become big business,paying to protect your computer from people busily thinking of ways to breech that protection. It's like being involved in a war you didn't start and would rather not participate in.
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