# are virus protection companies writing viruses?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-virus-protection-companies-writing-viruses/226797>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 30, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-virus-protection-companies-writing-viruses/226797 "2004-01-30T19:05:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-virus-protection-companies-writing-viruses/226797/21 "2004-02-01T20:16:41Z")

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> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> …and the award for Most Outlandish Conspiracy Theory of the Month goes to… **Trunk**!!!

Not hardly. Missed this thread [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=237224](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=237224) over in GD, did ya?

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**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-virus-protection-companies-writing-viruses/226797/22 "2004-02-01T20:51:19Z")

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> [@dutchboy208](#):
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> Virus protection companies _are_ hiring virus-writers though- for reverse engineering, rather than to keep writing viruses.

I don’t think so. There are plenty of people available with the knowledge to reverse engineer a virus without having to hire the anti-social misfits that actually write them.

So which anti-virus company is doing the hiring? Name one.

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