Originally posted by Mr Meridian:
Interestingly, there are reports that an increasing number of viruses are being written these days for criminal gain rather than for immature "look what a smart 16 year old I am" purposes.
Not reports. If you have enough money, you can rent yourself an army of virus/bot writers.
Password stealing and the like is big and scary business now. Have you heard of the Bagel and Netsky viruses? What you probably didn't hear was that they were written by two competing, organized crime run, teams of virus writers. When one variant of Bagel was released, another variant of Netsky was release to counter Bagel...
Unfortunately for all of us it will get worse.