- The Creeper Worm, the First Computer Virus : History of Information
The Creeper worm, an experimental self-replicating program written by Bob Thomas at BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts (originally Bolt Beranek and Newman), is generally considered the first computer virus
- Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia
November 2: The Morris worm, created by Robert Tappan Morris, infects DEC VAX and Sun machines running BSD UNIX that are connected to the Internet, and becomes the first worm to spread extensively "in the wild", and one of the first well-known programs exploiting buffer overrun vulnerabilities
- The First Computer Virus of Bob Thomas - History Tools
Created by Bob Thomas, a programmer working at defense technology company BBN, the Creeper virus is considered the world‘s first computer virus Thomas had no ill intentions when he coded Creeper—he was merely experimenting to see if a self-replicating application was possible on the fledgling ARPANET
- The First Computer Virus of Bob Thomas
From history, Thomas created the first computer worm as an experimental self-replicating program The experiment had zero malicious, harmful, or damaging intent, but to illustrate a mobile application’s working principle
- Creeper: The World’s First Computer Virus - Exabeam
Following Creeper, which was isolated within the realm of researchers, Elk Cloner was the first personal computer virus to be detected in the wild Written in 1982 by a 15-year-old high school student named Richard Skrenta, it was a boot sector virus that infected Apple II computers
- The very first viruses: Creeper, Wabbit and Brain. - Info Carnivore
Generally accepted as the first virus is the Creeper Worm, developed in 1971 by Bob Thomas It was not however designed maliciously or with any intent do damage Creeper was a self replicating program
- The First Computer Virus: Creeper (1971) - YouTube
In the realm of cybersecurity, 1971 marked a pivotal year with the emergence of the first known computer virus, named "Creeper "
- Bob Thomas – Computer Timeline
It is not known who created the first self-replicating program in the world, but it is clear that the first worm in the world (so-called the Creeper worm) was created by the BBN engineer Robert (Bob) H Thomas probably in 1971
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