25 year old virus
July 15, 2007Technorati Tags: Apple, 1982, computer, virus, Apple DOS 3.3, operating system
Ever forget to send a birthday card to someone? Well, here’s one that you might want to forget. The computer virus is now 25 years old. Back in 1982, Richard Skrenta, was a plucky little ninth grader who’d become the owner of an Apple II. The virus he created was designed as a practical joke on his friend as he designed it to attach to the Apple DOS 3.3 operating system on the 50th play of a game. That’s right, a game causing a virus on a Mac operating system, there’s one sentence that I didn’t think I’d be typing today. Once the virus was activated, the screen went blank and a poem was displayed on screen:-
“It will get on all your disks It will infiltrate your chips
Yes it’s Cloner! It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!”
Four years later, the first PC virus was launched and another two years after that, the first anti-virus application was made available.
[Via - New Launches]
