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July 13, 2007, 04:02 PM ET
An Unhappy Birthday
This year marks a computing milestone, but it’s not one that will have IT officials popping any corks: The computer virus has turned 25, according to Scientific American.
And boy, has it matured. The first computer virus to spread in the wild, Scientific American says, was “Elk Cloner,” a relatively simple piece of software created by a high-school student in Pittsburgh. Cloner didn’t attempt to destroy the data of Apple II users; it merely serenaded them with a poem:It will get on all your disks It will infiltrate your chips Yes it’s Cloner! It will stick to you like glue It will modify RAM too Send in the Cloner!
That’s a bit more charming than Blaster or Love Bug, one has to admit. —Brock Read
Categories: Security
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