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The first computer virus

know that the first virus that attacked to an IBM machine Series 360 ( and recognized as such ) was called Creeper, created in 1972 by Robert Thomas Morris. This program aired regularly on the screen the message: "I'm a creeper ... catch me if you can! ( am a vine, if they can agárrenme). To eliminate this problem is created the first antivirus program called Reaper (mower).

However, the term virus it would take until 1984, but they already existed before. His beginnings were in the laboratories of Bell Computers. Four programmers ( Mellory H. Douglas, Robert Morris, Victor Vysottsky y Ken Thompson ) desarrollaron un juego llamado Core Wars , el cual consistía en ocupar toda la memoria RAM del equipo contrario en el menor tiempo posible.

Después de 1984, los virus han tenido una gran expansión, desde los que atacan los sectores de arranque de disquetes hasta los que se adjuntan en un correo electrónico.



1986 El comienzo de la gran epidemia

En ese año se difundieron los virus (c) Brain, Bouncing Ball y Marihuana y que fueron las primeras especies representativas de difusión masiva. Estas 3 especies virales tan sólo infectaban el sector de arranque de los diskettes. Posteriormente virus appeared to infect files with the EXE and COM .

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What is a computer virus in Wikipedia
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