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History of the Computer Virus
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History of Malicious Software
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The first virus ever to infect a Mac OS X is dicovered. It is a LAN worm called Leap
John Von Neumann's work "Theory of self-reproducing automata" is published.
The Wabbit virus is created, making several copies of itself of a single computer, slowing system performance
Ghostball, the first multipartite virus is discovered.
It stored private information and caused data loss.
The first macro virus was discovered,
attacking Microsoft Office documents.
One of the first trojan horses was written for IBM computers, claiming to sort files alphabetically
The Pikachu Virus which was written in
Visual BASIC 6 was discovered. It was the first
virus to target children
The Creeper virus was written, gaining access to computers running the TENEX Operating System. The Reaper was soon created to get rid of the Creeper.
The Conficker worm infects almost 15,000,000 Microsoft server systems used by things like hospitals, police departments, and militaries
The Caribe worm is one of the first malware programs found in mobile phones. It spread itself through Bluetooth and infected phones running Symbian OS
The Elk Cloner was written for Apple II systems, peoples ignorance of viruses made this the first large scale viral infection