I’m sick of the virus threat culture we live in. Computer virus threats are what I’m specifically referring to. We have a billion dollar firewall/virus protection/malware blocking industry and it really pisses me off. What is wrong with us, as a species, that there are so many people who spend inordinate amounts of time writing malicious code?

I mean, I get identity theft. I don’t support it, of course, but I understand the criminal allure of stealing stuff from people. There’s some history there.

I also understand the evil plans of government agencies, both domestic and otherwise. Again, not something I support, but I get the whole cyber terrorism thing… intellectually.

But the people who write code that just destroys data and takes hours out of people’s lives and makes Norton and Mcaffee mega-corporations… what the hell are they thinking. Unless you have a contract from Norton to create a virus to prove the necessity of Norton to potential customers… what the hell? Why?

Personally I have had very few problems with viruses and such. I stay away from some of the mainstream targets, MS Outlook being one of them, and I rarely visit Websites that might host malicious content – intentionally or otherwise.

In fact, these days my PC backup is a memory stick with all the working files for Skateboard Heroes, Mad Science The Card Game, and Pour More. What’s Pour More you ask? Oh… just the new card game I’m developing. All about Winemaking. Oh yeah, it’s totally going to rock.