[WingedPanther]

For legal responsibilities, you can review computer crime laws. I'm not clear on the distinction between ethical and moral.

From a day-to-day perspective, my responsibilities are to make sure the code I produce works, is reasonably efficient, is documented, is written in such a manner that I or another person can maintain it later with relative ease. Changes need to be documented both for release notes and within the customer documentation. Testing code to attempt to make sure no bugs exist is a high priority. Bugs that are found by customers tend to be addressed based on the severity of the bug and available resources. Viruses don't really apply to our software, though we use anti-virus software on our computers to protect our systems and the applications we produce from being accidentally infected.