> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Charles Oblender wrote:
>
> > Could any one point me to a source for the history of viruses and
Well, I believe the first author to write about a Worm program was
David Gerrold in 'When Harlie was One'. This is a science fiction book
(Gerrold's first sale was an episode of a 1960's TV show called
'The Trouble with Tribbles'... the original Star Trek series, of course).
Hmm, i see he has his own web site, www.gerrold.com
If you can find a book that ACM produced about 10 years ago, "Computers
Under Attack: Intruders, Worms, and Viruses" this would be
a goldmine of information for your paper. This book is actually a collection
of research papers by various authors.
-Lawrence LeMay
> > computer worms. I'm doing a recearch paper and I'm looking for sources.
>
> The first article I ever read on computer viruses was in the Los Angeles
> Times in 1986. In fact, I clipped and saved this article (and many
> others) and still have it in a file folder laying on a shelf in my bedroom
> closet.
>
> The author then accurately predicted the explosion of computer virus
> attacks. In 1986 I was just playing around with computer timebombs on the
> Apple ][ (one of my dumb friends actually used my program on an
> unsuspecting fellow computer class student and got reamed out pretty good
> by the teacher) but viruses were pretty scarce. A few years later and
> they started to become a major nuisance.
>
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