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Who was designed first computer virus?

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Gtpan77

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Richard Skrenta invented the first virus, the elk cloner. It was a software that scanned the disk drive and copied itself to anything put in the drive. It would cause your computer to show a short poem after booting up your computer 50 times.

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