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The History of Computer Viruses [Infographic] (f-secure.com)
1 point by svag on March 18, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This infographic seems to concentrate on viruses that made a big media splash, and not so much on historically important viruses.

For example: where's the "first virus"? That could be the "Animal" program for Univac, the Elk Cloner virus, or maybe Fred Cohen's 4.2BSD virus that he published about. Any of those are "important", maybe as firsts, maybe as intellectually important.

Where's the '88 Internet Worm? Where's the '88 HEPNet/SPAN Father Xmas worm? Both important as "firsts": first network worm, first non-IP worm. For that matter, where's the Bitnet CHRISMA.EXE mentioned?

One could go on in this vein for a while.




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