Back in the before times it wasn't uncommon for people to release malware without any explicit monetary benefit. Sometimes they just did it as a "fuck you" to

Back in the before times it wasn't uncommon for people to release malware without any explicit monetary benefit. Sometimes they just did it as a "fuck you" to Microsoft, who at the time had a very very poor reputation for a myriad of reasons beyond the scope of this comment. tl;dr they might just do it for the lulz