So basically, computer viruses were and are still being developed in order to rake-in money for the developers in form of antivirus sales. It's quite scary the extent at which capital accumulators can go in order of achieve their goals. Same thing goes for weapon manufacturers. How can there be peace in the world when large corporations invest heavily in manufacturing arms? Are those arms suppose to be for hunting or humans?
It was initially developed to check if self-replicating program was possible since John von Neumann proposed the idea by writing an article on the “Theory of Self- Reproducing Automata” in 1966, unfortunately, what was once simply a research and cyber vandalism later turned to cybercrime and opened way for capital accumulators. Thanks for coming around.