@OmarJA:
If the major anti-virus companies were really that corrupt, then we'd see them targeting Mac's also. They wouldn't want to leave that market untouched. Since people in that market tend to have the money, and be stupid enough to pay for an anti-virus program.
Fact of the matter is, there are thousands of hackers young and old trying to infect users and profit from the information they gain. Especially with computers becoming more and more popular with each new generation, your seeing a steady increase in the percent of tech enthusiasts ("nerds") in our society. And with that, kids who get into hacking and go perhaps go down that route.
But I wouldn't put it past some companies to get some virus's made, put them out and be the first to counter it. But that would only account for a very tiny portion of the virus's.
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