Alright, I am wanting to know how many people out there use the method of security of "Throwing your own virii at your own separate machine" ? Or even throwing virii purposely at a box period, even if they aren't yours and you just found them. And im not talking about VBS scripts, but either real low level asm or something, or a C/C++ variant, actually just anything that isn't VBS. I mean, ive heard about this security method alot, and have never actually seen the benefit of spending the time to do all this unless:

1. you are planning on writing AV software

2. you are just testing out your antivirus software

or

3. you are just messing around

I mean, is there a real benefit to spending the time to do this? I could see if they were trojans or rootkits or even just some sort of worm, but really, why else would someone write their own virus to do this if not for malicious acts. Basically, this is just a poll for the popularity of homecooked virii, and why to write them...

The only reason i see for writing these virii is for educational purposes or even, malicious purposes. see poll.