USRanger, if it makes you happier, the amount of "evil" programmers without benefiting financially has been reducing for a long time. The existing ones are mostly schoolboys who'd copy existing code from the Internet. Look at Beavis & Butthead to get a hint of their state of mind. But really, most of the "real" malware makers either make profit of it or practice for doing that.
Making a good malware is also a good resume for a security expert job. As crazy as it sounds, the most notorious hackers now have high paid jobs as security consultants. Or become Kim Dotcoms
I remember chatting with Kimble on IRC back when he was still just a teenage hacker instead of the extradition battling criminal millionaire he is now.
