The Internet has been abuzz lately claiming we are in the 25th year of the computer virus. And while many people believe a 15-year-old created the first virus in 1982, I'm not so quick to agree.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the first computer virus: Creeper in 1971. Guillaume Lovet, senior manager of the threat response team at Fortinet, looks back at the most intriguing viruses ...

The first ever computer virus was a worm, dubbed the Morris Worm, which caused havoc by infecting 6,000 computers in 1988, a few years before '90s movies started obsessing over viruses and hacking.

Five years later, the first known computer virus, called Creeper, was a written by Bob Thomas. Written in PDP-10 assembly language, Creeper could reproduce itself and move from computer to ...

First computational reconstruction of a virus in its biological entirety. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 / 230120131300.htm ...