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You raised some important points on how virus distributors should be handled in both civil and criminal law. I honestly don't understand why someone or group of people would deliberately design a program to expose and harm other systems. I am sometimes forced to suspect the major antivirus companies to have hands in these complex computer programs. It is well established fact that there are hundreds of thousands of viruses out there (if not millions) and they often designed for different objectives. The writers of computer virus may not be a homogeneous group, but it is believed that their motivations could be the need to express their dissatisfaction to a specific business entity, to achieve revenge or to prove their technical ability and becoming famous. According to (Ahmad, 2005, p. 43), "It seems that computer virus writers' determination to accomplish their goal may conceal their vision from viewing the ethical and legal issues (or they might not even care). Another reason could be their dissatisfaction with their society, since the ethics and legal codes belongs to it, and they want revenge for everything in their society including the ethics and legal codes".

What sort of jurisdictional issues, if any, do you see in proceeding against those individuals located in other countries? I'm sure you will recall some of our discussions early in the course regarding jurisdiction.