Computer Viruses Are 25 Years Old
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007The first computer virus wasn’t much of a threat. Created by a mischievous Pittsburgh high school student, Elk Cloner annoyed unwitting Apple II users with a brief poem extolling its power to proliferate:
It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes it’s Cloner! …
The year was 1982. The IBM personal computer had only [...]

