Saturday, April 15, 2006

How does a virus analyst feel?

I wonder how a virus analyst feels. He exists because viruses exist. He loves to combat viruses and is there to crack them. He combats a threat, without which, he would not exist. Isn't that tricky?

How can you try to eliminate something when its own destruction means your own end (as a profession)? Isnt that as if you are fighting with yourself? Of course practically this is not possible, since viruses will keep existing. But isn't that still kinda weird?

I am just trying to decide whether I love viruses or hate viruses. But then again Doctors also deal with illnesses all the time, the police force deals with crime. The fact that one occupies himself constantly with something negative, does not make him one with the subject. Or is that why psychologists look like mentally unstable persons, policemen like criminals and virus analysts like hackers :))!?? LOL

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