malware-killer bots

Excuse my ignorance if it's glaringly obvious, but I wonder why people don't develop bots to patrol the net and destroy malware programs. Each malware program has a fingerprint obviously. What's to prevent programs being designed to seek them out and disable/terminate them?

Hello Andrew_Oid, :welcome:

Interesting idea but such a scenario at this time isn't possible. :)

Also, think of the lawsuits when false positives cause such bots to seek out and terminate applications created by legal companies. :eek: