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A few years after the introduction of the first virus came the first widely-propagating worm, which spread itself over thousands of machines across the world (which represented a substantial portion of Internet-connected machines at the time). It wasn't until many years later, when an Internet connection was more common in households that the idea of mass-scale computer infections popped into people's heads. Now, we hear dozens of stories a year about some new threat, which have goals ranging from draining your bank account to taking command of millions of PCs for denial of service attacks.
The evolution of the computer virus has always been interesting to watch, even if it's indication that no matter how hard security companies try, there is always going to be new, smarter threats to deal with.
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And the anti-virus scanner turns 26 today as well.
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Elohim83 said:
Huh... 26 years old. Just like me! Congrats viruses.
I wonder if there's a connection...
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Ah... memories
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Hmm older than me
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Puiu said:
I'm 5 years younger than a virus? It's nice to be young ^_^
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WTF!?
Wikipedia: "The Creeper worm was an experimental self-replicating program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971.[1] It is generally accepted to be the first computer virus."
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Is there any reason an anti-virus company wouldn't want to make viruses that only their software can catch? It wouldn't be that hard to hide the source.
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T77 said:
this computer headache(virus) is older than me
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