It infected the Apple DOS 3.3 and spread to other computers by floppy disk transfer. It was also spread by sharing tapes.Ī novel by John Brunner called the "Shockwave Rider" coined the term "worm" by using it to describe a particular program that circulates itself through a computer network.ġ981- The " Elk Cloner" for the Apple II Systems was created by Richard Skrenta. It spread to other UNIVACs when computer users discovered the game due to overlapping permissions. This became known as on of the first non-malicious Trojans. The computer system would eventually crash.ġ974/1975- John Walker wrote the ANIMAL for the UNIVAC 1108. It infected DEC PDP-10 Computers that ran the TENEX Operating System. The Reaper was later developed to delete this virus.ġ974- A virus called the Wabbit made continual copies of itself at such high speeds that it would clog the system. This was based his lectures he had held 18 years earlier on this theory.ġ971- The Creeper Worm, by Bob Thomas, was an experimental program that was self-replicating. by Sean Spencer, Software Development Expert and Authorġ949- Although no viruses or worms were developed, theories of self-replicating programs that spawn viruses or worms are developed.ġ966- John von Neumann wrote an article called the "Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata" that was published.
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