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- madskjaer, on 10/10/2007, -7/+46Please... No more lolcatz-related comments,
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+40Being 25 years old - "It will get on all your disks; it will infiltrate your chips." sounds incredibly too familiar to "I'm in your..." &c.
- mrminty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Next time someone says that Macs can't get viruses...
- GruffPelt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Dugg for linking to an article that is well written and non-inflammatory.
- RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Someone set up us the worm.
- cjhandley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY
- mrminty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Thanks. That was the joke.
- deadordying, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
You would do well to read that. Your comment perfectly illustrates the broken window fallacy. - CamperBob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That was pretty damn leet, monkeying with RWTS in a BASIC programming class.
- dokeshi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4...What's a floppy?
- Gutterpunk, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6hoe and behold, it was a Mac article about viruses.
- scilec, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I did sometime similar back in the late 70's. I was taking a BASIC programming class and we worked on Apple II's. I suspected that a kid in my class was stealing my programs off my floppy and turning it in as his own work because my teacher had mentioned that she was "suspicious" because our programs looked very similar. We all kept our floppies in a container in the lab with our names on them so it would have been easy for him to copy my stuff. So, I ironically did something similar to what this person did. I modified "CATALOG" to change a few bytes on the sector map so that it appeared as if the floppy had been erased and then told the teacher about it. Sure enough, a couple of days later, he told the teacher that all of the programs on his floppy were gone. What surprised me was that a few other students suddenly experienced the same problem. They got their grades dinged and I was told by the teacher to never do that again. What she never found out though was that I charged each student $5 to restore their data. After that, I didn't do it again and the whole thing was eventually forgotten. Also, I wouldn't call that a "virus" because it wasn't self-replicating. It required somebody to copy an infected floppy. Still it was funny to read that story and it certainly brought back some memories.
- TygerrTygerr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If he didn't then someone else would have. It didn't create the virus industry any more than the first killing sparked all future wars. It's just an inevitability and he happened to be there first, which should still be duly noted of course.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Total *****. The colloquial-treated-as-universal AP mentality ("Apple was the dominant computer then") is insulting. The "dominant" computer was dependent on the locale: Vic-20s, TI-99/4A, Apple II, Timex Sinclair were all "dominant" depending on where in the world you were. And this little prick definitely did not write the first virus.
- SpacedCowboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hmmm - worth a mention : http://blog.gornall.net/files/viralConsequences.html
- RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What Melissa Gates gets. The origin of MicroSoft revealed.
- Tetraca, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Is it worth hacking a virus on a Unix machine that has little strangelhold on the market? It's like Canada invading Rhode Island.
- jck202, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This guy went to the same high school as me, Mt. Lebanon in Pittsburgh. Now we're famous for Mark Cuban, Kurt Angle, and this guy. hazzah!
- kmckanna, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Well this simply shows/helps prove that negative and malicious things can create billion dollar per year industries. That's a lot of extra movement in the world economy just because of computer hackers.
- Aeric, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5HAHA! First mainstream virus was on a Mac!
Look at the Mac Boy's getting their panties in a bunch. Cry me a river and take a blurry pic of it with your iPhone. - RedX117, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1WTF is wrong with you? And more importantly, what are YOU doing on Digg?
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The Canucks are coming! The Canucks are coming! And they want Providence!
- Cole2026, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Haha, I go there now. :P
- Toast1185, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3any box that does computing can get a virus. Haven't you ever seen Independence Day?
- bieber, on 10/10/2007, -9/+9...you'll point to an article about a twenty-years-old virus? Now if that's not scaremongering, I don't know what is. Apple, apparently learned their lesson when they got that first virus twenty some-odd years ago. Microsoft, on the other hand...
- jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Hey, no problem
- kris33, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2I'm in your internetz and reading your commentz and agreez with themz
- mrminty, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Idiot.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2buried as spam, its just ap news that you can get anywhere, just link to ap's site or google next time
- urdigger, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Buried as inaccurate. " * Creeper virus was detected on ARPANET infecting the Tenex operating system. Creeper gained access independently through a modem and copied itself to the remote system where the message, 'I'M THE CREEPER : CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.' was displayed. The Reaper program, itself a virus, was created to delete Creeper, the creators of both programs are unknown."
"A program called "Elk Cloner" is commonly credited with being the first computer virus to appear "in the wild" — that is, outside the single computer or lab where it was created, but that claim is false."
FALSE! - LeeVal, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2say wa?
- TroubleInMind, on 10/10/2007, -9/+6You know of course that lulz is a corruption of lol.
[insert pic of exploding van] - ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1"Every 50th time someone booted an infected disk, a poem he wrote would appear, saying in part, "It will get on all your disks; it will infiltrate your chips.""
I'm in ur disks infiltrating ur chipz... - eosp, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1look at a 300 lb lard emo. your dick? that's a floppy.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2you fags stole Caturday so now pay for those consequences.
- jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2Is there any specific reason why you "***** hate digg and all the ***** retards on it", or are your anti-psycotic and anti-anxiety meds interacting with each other again?
- mb3581, on 10/10/2007, -9/+5im in ur diskz, eating ur chipz !0!
- thecompkid, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1 - -
- shitton, on 10/10/2007, -11/+6I only saw the title at first and thought it was going to be a windows article....
- jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Not Mac, Apple ][,silly. Big difference. It was easier than hell to write viruses for AppleDOS. No internet back then to worry about.
- bradkovach, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1^^^ FANBOY ALERT ^^^
- Kungfucious, on 10/10/2007, -17/+10im in your Digg Lolcatting your messages
- jonr, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3Recursive/self referencing joke... Only a true geek can love this.... Well played, sir.
- mehss, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3EPIC LULZ
- Hayes, on 10/10/2007, -12/+4i ***** hate digg and all the ***** retards on it. jesus ***** christ i want to press submit for this comment and have it effectively kill everyone being a ***** retard in this place.
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -13/+5lulz killer
- euphemizeme, on 10/10/2007, -15/+6or badly aimed semen
- byrdgang, on 10/10/2007, -15/+3Can we get a proper lolcat joke, please? Nothing lame; thanks.
- WikiEasy, on 10/10/2007, -15/+1Lawlz
- AbuZiad, on 10/10/2007, -19/+1I thought viruses were a windows only invention :)
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