All computer viruses have an author. It was programmed by a real live person with the sole intent of creating a piece of software that will function like a virus. The people who create computer viruses are fairly tech inclined as they obviously have good programming skills. In fact, some virus programmers are actually employed as programmers. They are not employed to create viruses, however they may work for a large IT company performing legitimate programming but create viruses in their spare time. Or perhaps their creation of the computer virus was a more or less one-time thing on their part just to see if they could do it. Which leads us to ask: why would a person create a computer virus? Reasons could include:

• Seeing if they can do it
• Getting revenge (on a company, for example)
• To generally create trouble
• To gain notoriety and see if they can get their work talked about in the press
• To combat boredom

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