"The Creeper virus, it was first detected on ARPANET" - WikiPedia. The Creeper Virus displayed the message when connecting via dial-up: "I AM THE CREEPER: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN". It was discovered in 1789. This answer is Abhinav jain
It was a simple application that displayed a punk message the fiftieth time you turned on the computer.Harmless but could be annoying
If you have a virus: files can be deleted and lost forever. Hackers can access important information if you do banking or ever used a credit card number on line. How you got a virus: by accessing unsafe websites that are not protected. By not having an anti-virus installed on your computer. You can find free antiviruses online like AVG. Also use pirirform to clean out the computer regularly by defragging and deleting cookies and history.
Yes once someone I know had their computer slow down... a lot!
A fake virus is something that looks like a virus, but is a "contained virus" in a way because the user of the "infected" computer can just shutdown their computer, and it will be all good again. A good way to make these fake viruses are via command prompt (batch files), and java scripts.
tobacco mosaic virus was the first virus found, but poliovirus was the first one whose presence has been recognized (in Ezypcean paint)
your computer will soon break down
The first Computer Virus was downloaded in1982
Brain virus; the world's first computer virus, made in Pakistan
No known computer virus has ever had a good effect. They are malicious and damaging.
No way of telling the very first one, but one of the earliest widely disseminated viruses was called the "stoned" virus. It put a message on your computer that came up with each boot saying "Your computer is now officially stoned - legalize marijuana". The creators name is unknown.
The brain virus. It was the first virus ever.
Elk Cloner
The first virus to breach a Mac computer was the iBotnet virus. The iBotnet virus was reported in the month of April in the year of 2009. However, Macs usually do not get viruses.
Jon von Neumann designed the first computer virus in 1949. His design was based on his theories about a self-reproducing computer program.
Tobacco Mosaic Virus
No. It was not. There was a Trojan horse that was lethal. Your computer would "destroy" itself and spread the virus without you knowing.
Rick Skrenta is founder OS computer virus.
In general terms Virus was given as the first name. The first name other then a Virus given (If I remember) was the Legendary Trojan.