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Revise: Cyber Criminals, Viruses and Trojans
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First of all stop thinking of virus/trojan writers as Hackers. The culprits are criminals using cyber techniques. The days of the 'hacker' who were mostly harmless adventurers poking around are gone. Modern stuff is serious crime, run by criminal gangs, and sorry to say the worst of them are in Russia. The Bosses employ those hackers, who have turned to the dark side, to do the dirty work. The days of the simple viruses are also gone. The earlier viruses were mostly written as a sort of graffiti by kids with the same sort of attitude as graffiti artists, i.e "show the world what I can do but don't let them find out it was me". Early viruses had objectives of seeing how far and fast they could propagate and though some did malicious damage most often the payload was just a joke, such as causing your screen characters to fall to the bottom or the screen turn sideways etc. i.e if it had a payload it was a visible one. Modern malware, including viruses, worms and trojans try to be as invisible as possible. Bill.
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