A computer science student who knows how a virus works or the dangers posed by a Trojan will know how to defend against them and how to protect the computer networks they will work with the future. But teaching students how to create malicious code cannot be beneficial for the training of an IT systems student. An engineer must know the destructive power of explosives, not to use them against people but to use them for the benefit of society: in demolition work or to test the resistance of a certain building to an explosion. And, of course, in Law Faculties never is taught how to make a bank robbery.

The problem is that, on many occasions, writers of malicious code have been regarded almost as heroes, modern-day revolutionaries fighting the establishment from the IT field. But let's face reality: in the same ways as Robin Hood's generosity is just a nice tale, virus writers are just a new type of criminal.


If the time comes when virus creation is implemented in university syllabuses, then there should be a subject dealing with professional ethics. In this way, this technique could be regarded as a useful trade for society.