those e mail virus's

[bobtheduck]

you know the ones that end up in your bulk mail folder with some  message that tries to get you to open them, my question is what type of person sends these things? is it some geek in a bedsit trying to give himself some kinda thrill or is someone more sophsicated?

[Potatoman]

bob, i wonder the same thing. The only thing i can imagine is some sad pathetic individual writes the virus and probly fires it off. I cant see what they can gain by infringing peoples PC's. Also, i thing a lot of this probly come from thos annoying emails we all get - "Forward this to 1,000 people and youll recieve good luck!" Good luck my a*se. More like a 'confirmed active' notification for spammers for the mug that does forward it! Sorry, but all these spyware, virus things really annoy me! lol

[bobtheduck]

me too i really do not see the point i just wonder are they ordinary people with a normal life or do you have to be emotionally stunted to go to the bother

[Potatoman]

I read that everytime you log on to the net, on average, someone/something tries to harm or tap into your PC about 5-10 times per hour. And, that 50% of all email across the globe is spam! Think how fast the net would be without all the rubbish running about everywhere!

[bobtheduck]

yea and what gets me is when you buy a pc you have to fork out an extra 50 quid for anti virus software it should be on all systems as standard i dont think the powers that be are doing any where near enough

[Dagman]

You never know, perhaps the antivirus creators also create the viruses causing us all to buy their products!