17 Feb
1999
17 Feb
'99
9:39 a.m.
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.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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