eli5 Why do viruses on computers even exist?

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Like I understand maybe wanting to get information maybe from like big government sources or something, but why do these viruses also target random people?
What is there to gain from screwing up a random person’s software?
Like is it just to be petty or are they gathering data??

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Back in the 80’s to 00’s they were mostly passion projects from random software devs, anyone could make a virus due to laws being less strict. They used to add their names and everything up to personalized political opinions. Now it’s more about money and exploiting people rather than getting good reactions.

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