Probably wrote some of the earliest viruses so he could sell his product. When I set up anyone's pc it was the first thing I would uninstall. Then Norton.
I don’t know if he was actually able to do that. Although I know there was a tiff between him and a *real* tech heavy who blamed him for a networked Jerusalem.
But a lot of the early viruses were actually written by early antivirusers. And a lot of the later ones, too, are out of the companies. They’ll tell you it’s a myth. Far from it.