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  • September 2007

    • Prankster's 1st Computer Virus Turns 25

      Associated Press  |  Sep 2, 07 5:56 PM CDT

      Prankster's 1st Computer Virus Turns 25

      (Newser) - A prankster who wrote the first computer virus 25 years ago says only, “It was some dumb little practical joke.” Yet Richard Skrenta’s desire to infiltrate other Apple II’s with a poem (“It will get on all your disks; it will infiltrate your chips”) marked the beginning of a worldwide virus craze that spawned a $38 billion security industry and 150 to 175 new pieces of malware every day. More »

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      Microsoft  • Apple  • software  • computer virus  • Windows  • spyware  • hardware  • virus protection  • Elk Cloner

  • July 2007

    • The Computer Virus Turns 25

      Salon  |  Jul 13, 07 4:52 PM CDT

      The Computer Virus Turns 25

      (Newser) - A long time ago (1982), in a galaxy not so far, far away, Rich Skrenta, then a clever 9th grader, invented what may have been the first computer virus—Elk Cloner. It was, by current standards, a benign virus that Skrenta installed on his school computer, so that every time one of his fellow students copied a floppy disk, some doggerel from Skrenta appeared on their screens. More »

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      hacker  • computer virus  • Elk Cloner

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