![]() ![]() Until 1987, when the first antivirus was created, there weren’t many big movements in the virus world. Known as ‘the first large-scale computer virus outbreak in history’, the Elk Cloner virus targeted Apple II systems only (said to be due to it’s weak infrastructure making it susceptible to virus contraction and spreading), printing the following poem onto infected computers:Įlk Cloner: The program with a personality The virus slowed a computer down exponentially, then eventually caused the computer to crash by taking up all of it’s processing power.Īnother notable early malicious virus (created in 1981) was the ‘Elk Cloner’, written by 15 year old high school student Richard Skrenta as a prank. The rabbit virus was designed to not only reproduce itself for spreading purposes, but also to bring the infected computer to a halt by using up precious computing resources like RAM. The first malicious virus made hit computers in 1974 in the form of the ‘Rabbit’ virus, named so due to it’s speed. After all, it was only a test to see if programs could be spread through computer networks, there was no need for it to be malicious. ![]() The Creeper virus wasn’t dangerous at all, printing “I’m the creeper, catch me if you can” on any infected computer was the extent of the virus’ capability. The virus was an experiment testing the theory of self replication, infecting certain types of computers running the ‘TENEX’ operating system. The first virus ever spotted ‘in the wild’ was the ‘Creeper system’, written by Bob Thomas at BBN Technologies in the early 70s. ![]()
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