Why collect computer viruses

Why should someone collect computer viruses

• Why not? Why collect stamps or cinema tickets?

• Viruses are programs with a - usually - limited expiration date and therefore can indeed be considered collectable items.

• Collecting viruses is the nearest and safest thing next to having the knowledge to make them.

• The publicity that has been given to them - especially after the latest CIH, Melissa, LoveYou-Worm, Klez, Tanatos, Opasoft attacks - has made computer viruses kinda fascinating to the pc users.

• The people you get to meet - both collectors and coders - are, at least, interesting and clever.

• You have the chance to learn many things about them. Consequently, you learn how to protect your computer even better.

• Viruses are the forbidden fruit for the pc users.

• The fact that you will tell your friends that you collect viruses, makes you look like a mysterious man, in a weird but cool kinda way.

• Collecting viruses doesn't necessarily make you a bad person ... as long as you don't use them to infect other people's computers :)

• Nowadays you can find computer viruses easily at the Internet.

• You realize that you collect things that could erase your hard disk, only with one more click of the mouse. It's like playing with fire, a game only a few pc users have the guts to play ...