The first virus was called "Rother J".
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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.
Moots Cycles was created in 1981.
James Watson Kernohan died in 1981.
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The first virus was called "Rother J".
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It was the Elk Cloner in 1981.
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 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.
This book was called Red Dragon. It was written by Thomas Harris and published in 1981.
1981
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!"
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in 1981.
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