It was the Elk Cloner in 1981.
The first virus was called "Rother J".
The first computer virus, written in 1981, was called the Elk Cloner. It infected Apple II computers through infected floppy disks and displayed a short poem to the user.
The first known PC virus, written in 1981, was called "Elk Cloner." It was created by Rich Skrenta and targeted Apple II computers by infecting floppy disks. Elk Cloner was not malicious and simply displayed a poem.
It was the Elk Cloner in 1981.
Elk Cloner
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 one written was a lab test virus called Creeper 1971. The first one in the wild was called Elk Cloner 1982.
There are many different Trojan horse viruses, which have been written by computer hackers usually for illegal or malicious purposes.The first known Trojan Horse virus was called ANIMAL written by John Walker in 1974; it was a relatively harmless compared to more recent viruses.
It was first seen in birds (avian).
Virus Signatures
The first computer virus, known as the Creeper virus, was an experimental self-replicating program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971. Creeper infected DEC PDP-10 computers running the TENEX operating system. Creeper gained access via the ARPANET
the first virus was discouvred by a student at unuversity of california called freed cohen.