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- Rounin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1John Walker wrote the first computer "virus" in 1975. It was actually a subroutine called PERVADE as part of the program ANIMAL that ran on a UNIVAC.
http://www.fourmilab.to/documents/univac/animal.html - lzeltser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A complementary paper, written a few years ago, examines the Evolution of Malicious Agents. The URL: http://www.zeltser.com/malicious-agents/
- lzeltser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A complementary paper, written a few years ago, examines the Evolution of Malicious Agents.
- Rkstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does anyone else remember, in "Pirates of Silicon Valley", where in about 1982/1983, Bill Gates convinced the airport to turn the plane around because of a computer virus, which the clerk at the airport had read about? I wonder how accurate that part of the story was.
- FunkyGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0whoa the I love you virus caused 8.7 billion $ in damage? *****...
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, I didn't realize some of those viruses like Michelangelo and Melissa happened so long ago. I'm getting old.
- hax0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OLD story, geez, why digg something that's 5 years old!!!
- JAFFA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In 1988 i was working in a High St computer store and refused to believe that there was such a thing as a 'virus' that could 'infect' other computers.
..... I have enough humble pie here to feed sub-saharan Africa! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"From the December 2000 issue of PC World magazine"
- Marcelo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good point...maybe I'll just have to watch it again ;)
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think we should be teaching the evolution of computer viruses. Where's the Intelligent Design of computer viruses?
You're opressing my religion! - modbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No mention of Sub Seven?! lol
- CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0horribly incomplete list
- sersch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't forget John Brunners "Shock Wave Rider" from 1974, which has a hacker, a communication terminal named communicator and a computer worm, too.
- Snitzel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+01992:Michelangelo, the first virus to cause a media frenzy, is set to overwrite parts of infected hard drives on March 6, the Renaissance artist's birthday. Sales of anti virus software soar, though only a few cases of actual infection are reported.
I remember this virus. Not able to afford anti virus software at the time my friends and i simply left our computers off on March 6th to try and stop it doing anything. Nothing happened of course. There was a lot of hype about it and i always wondered if a certain anti virus company at the time had something to do with it. - DigitalBrian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't understand, how can you make a term for something that doesn't exist until 4 years later? just wondering.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"whoa the I love you virus caused 8.7 billion $ in damage? *****..."
It didn't really cause $8.7 billion - every single company that reported "losses" related to this pumped up and inflated to the most extreme limit possible. Makes for a great excuse in the accounting later.
Most of those so-called losses were things like time they claimed to spend on security (they claim a hell of a lot more hours than they really put in); security upgrades they would have done anyway, but now they can say they're related to the virus; and intellectual property lost - which again is usually inflated to the bounds of belief.
Imagine someone loses the notes he forgot to back up on his project, now he goes to the bean counters and says "I spent three solid months on that project, working non-stop, and now it's been cancelled. We just lost a million dollars!"
Loads o'*****. - fgb00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for the John Walker reference. I distinctly remember playing around with some simple viruses (all implemented as shell scripts, we wanted to see how fast it would spread on our LAN) in 1982. We called them viruses back then and I know the term was fairly common.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sersch - thanks for the reference to John Brunner. I've never read his books, I can't believe I've missed out on him.
- irie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0No need to read, being on this Mac
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+01983: The term "computer virus" was coined.
1987: "Brain", the first computer virus.
I'll have to remember those dates.
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