It was called "Elk Cloner"
This virus spread across Apple II floppy disks.
And, just for fun, here is the message it would output:
"It will get on all your disks.
It will infiltrate your chips.
Yes it's Cloner!
It will stickto you like glue.
It will modify ram too Send in the Cloner!"
The first virus was called "Rother J".
The first virus was called "Rother J".
It was the Elk Cloner in 1981.
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It was the Elk Cloner in 1981.
1981- The "Elk Cloner" for the Apple II Systems was created by Richard Skrenta. It infected the Apple DOS 3.3 and spread to other computers by floppy disk transfer. The "Elk Virus" was responsible for being the first computer virus to cause a massive outbreak ever in history.
The first computer virus ever invented was the Creeper virus. The Creeper virus was invented in 1971 by Bob Thomas. The Creeper virus was highly experimental and it was accidentally released. It infected dozens of machines (because back then there wasn't that many computers). A group of people realized the potential danger the Creeper virus showed, so they created a counter-program called Reaper in order to find and remove the Creeper virus from infected machines. The Reaper program spread like a computer virus, but it deleted itself once it found no more infected machines.
It was first seen in birds (avian).
the first virus was discouvred by a student at unuversity of california called freed cohen.
The first one written was a lab test virus called Creeper 1971. The first one in the wild was called Elk Cloner 1982.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in 1981.