I got the feeling people wrote viruses for the same reason people graffitti, so that their name or lifes work was "remembered".
I would assume that's the reason why we don't see many MAC viruses, given how small their penetration is in the computer market, if you bothered to write a virus (not sure if that's the correct terminology) for it, very few people would know it (remember, they have to come across it as well). That's what i think as a non-tech guy (I don't know about the difficulties of making a mac virus etc).
That's probably the same reason consoles that go online don't get viruses, aside from the securities put in place by the consoles (All content would go through a screening process I assume), you're comparing potentially getting say 60 million (of which only 30 million go on regularly) with potentially getting countless PC's that go online everyday.
Or at least if I were one of these people, that'd be my reason for not doing it.
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