Antivirus conspiracy

What if McAfee or other antivirus software companies are secretly paying hackers on other continents to develop malicious software in order to keep themselves in business? It would be like the police planning crimes for their own job security. It would be like my earlier theory about bread and toasters: I'm pretty sure that bakeries have paid toaster manufacturers to skew their heat controls so that it's very difficult to find the ideal spot between too burnt and too white. That way people use more bread than they need and have to buy more from the bakeries.