The Register has an article today about virus writers adding copyright notices to their malware. These are professional virus writers, and the copyright notice, the article says, “is designed to prevent the malware from being freely distributed after its initial purchase.” Apparently, this is a problem that is hurting the revenue stream of your friendly-neighborhood malware programmer.
It makes you wonder how they can enforce this, of course. But there’s a way. One of the licenses says, “In cases of violations of the agreement and being detected, the client loses any technical support. Moreover, the binary code of your bot will be immediately sent to antivirus companies.”
There’s no better threat than that: send the code to security companies so it will be blocked much quicker than when it’s discovered in the wild. There’s no honor among thieves…
