Peaches Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 <h1></h1>What Motivates Virus Writers? MoneyAnuradha Shukla, MIS Asia While the whole world struggled with the challenges posed by the recession, malware continued growing unaffected, according to F-Secure's data security wrap-up for 2009. Like pizza, malware is now available on demand, but it is offered by criminal gangs. With this kind of proliferation, the number of individualised variants of viruses and other malware seems infinite, says the anti-virus and computer security software company. Microsoft launched the Windows 7 operating system as a replacement for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Both Vista and XP were affected by major security issues. The replacement, Windows 7, is a more secure operating system, and has an improved user security experience compared to Vista. Read full story at PCWorld - http://www.pcworld.com/article/184190/what_motivates_virus_writers_money.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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