Are these people bored or something?

I'm a systems administrator, so I have to deal with the threat of computer viruses on a daily basis. Every day I go to the Symantec website to see what new threats are out there, and there seems to be at least 4 new viruses every day.

The people who write these viruses...are they bored or something? They have absolutely nothing better to do with their lives other than to keep Symantec in business? Why not try to stop world hunger? Or help improve an impoverished neighborhood? Or even just go outside and exercise that flab offa their bodies that they've accumulated after sitting in front of a computer for the past sixteen years trying to write these lame-ass viruses and trojans?

Give me a break!