How computer viruses were born

In order to modify the correct activity of a computer without the permission of its user, the viruses were born as malware to replace the executable files by others infected with the same code. As many Internet users know and fear, a virus is capable of destroying all the information stored in a computer, modifying it or simply damaging it; In fact, these programs or software that run on our PCs are characterized as being especially annoying. If you are curious to know the history of computer viruses ... Read carefully!

The first one refinanced the virus

It was in the late 1960s when workers at AT & T Bell Laboratories Douglas McLlory, Victor Vysottsky and Robert Morris came up with a little game they called, referencing computer memory, Core War. This little hobby, which would later be considered the first reference to the computer virus, was that its two players had to write each a program, called an organism, whose habitat was the computer's memory. After a signal, each program should try to force the of his opponent and make an invalid instruction, winning the first one that got it.

The first computer virus

The creator of the first malicious software was only 15 years old, in 1982, when he decided to auto-copy the diskettes of his friends on his Apple II computer without their authorization. The young man, who was already known to alter the operation of various programs by inserting small poems into them, managed to do so, this time, without directly touching the computer of his victims. The result of this first harmful program was, therefore, the visualization of this small poem every 50 times the PC is turned on: Elk Cloner: The program with a personalityIt will get on all your disksIt will infiltrate your chipsYes it's Cloner!

The most famous viruses

The most famous computer viruses of the last 20 years have been more than we would like. In '88, for example, Jerusalem was created, a malware that was installed on the computer and erased all the files every Friday 13. Many still remember the well-known 'ILoveYou', an email that moved on the Internet as a fish in the water affecting millions of computers during the year 2000 ... It even reached the Pentagon!