Could you send me copies of these news articles? From what I found so far
computer viruses were around longer than that. I am also interested in "worm"
programs which act differently than a virus since a worm usually doesn't destroy
the system and reproduces it on its own.
Sam Ismail wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Charles Oblender wrote:
>
> > Could any one point me to a source for the history of viruses and
> > 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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