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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Hell 90% of all the virus programs out come from companies like McAfee and Sysmetic. We all know they are the ones making virus just to propetuate their products.

"Hacking is not a science, it is a sport."

Actually I do not know that.

As far as I know, no real proof has been given in support of this contention.

Personally, I think even if the companies had thought about it, they would consider the risk too great for any potential gain.

It takes people to create viruses. People talk. The resulting scandal would probably ruin the company and subject them to lawsuits as well. Like who would want to buy their product...I certainly wouldn't.

It reminds me of the assertions made against the US car manufacturers and oil companies about 30 or so years ago.

A lot of people believed that they were buying up inventions which would significantly increase auto mileage and deep-sixing them in order to maintain gasoline sales. Increased efficiency claims like doubling or trippling mileage were not uncommon for these so-called devices/additives.

A moments thought would have allowed a person to realize that this was probably not true. The only way to protect an invention is to register it in the patents office. Yet, to register such a patent and not use it to double or triple mileage would be proof of the assertion.

Since such patents were not registered and deep-sixed, the road was open to other inventors to create similiar devices/additives. Or the original inventor could pass on the idea to another inventor to extract even more money out of the companies.

With the fuel crisis, the need to conserve non-renewable resources and the government regulations for fuel economy, such inventions/additives would be a gold mine to these companies. Yet, there has been no leaps and bounds in fuel efficiency. Just a kilometer or two here and a half kilometer there over the years.