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Of course they should go to jail. It doesn't matter if one person wrote the virus and then someone else launches onto the Internet, if that someone wouldn't have made the virus then it wouldn't have gotten unleashed and wreaked havoc on 100's to 1000's of computers before it can be stopped. The people who create these viruses are deranged to think that what they are doing is in any way useful. If there was no one writing the virus then there would be no anti-virus software and the risks of using your computer would be considerably lower than there are now. Most people (in my opinion) who create and launch viruses are people who absolutely have "0" friends and they are most likely the guys who were picked on in school for being smarter than everyone else, so they take revenge by creating a program that destroys computer files and shuts down may businesses and for what.... Nothing....

There is nothing to be gained from wring a virus, the only reason you would right is virus is to harm others either by stealing their personal information or by shutting down critical and non-critical businesses and websites and there is no reason to do such things. The people who create viruses should focus on programs that would actually benefit people instead of harming them. Instead of wring a program that steals people's information, why not write a program that helps secure people's information from malicious attacks..?

The people who write these viruses make me sick because there is so much hate and anger out there why would you want to create more..? The laws should be stricter for people who write these types of programs, but it is extremely hard to catch most of these people since a lot of people who create viruses, worms and Trojans are in other countries that do not have the same laws as us or apparently just don't care if their citizens are creating these malicious programs to be distributed throughout the world.

The law should be that anyone caught creating one of these virus programs should have to be forced to work at a virus protection firm such as Symantec or Macafee... That would be the best solution, to help stop people like them from creating these programs. Nowadays companies have hackers that work for them to test the company's networks so why shouldn't virus creators work for virus protection companies. I would rater be paid to write a program that stops a virus rather than spend time in jail for writing a virus!

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