Creeper. To be 100% fair to Bob Thomas, the first computer virus, known as Creeper, wasn’t sent with any malicious intent. Instead, it was mostly a case of experimentation in whether or not code ...

There had been computer viruses in labs before, most notably Fred Cohen's experiements at USC in the early 1980s, but as long as the programs were confined to a lab, it was impossible to know how ...

In the realm of technology, the term “virus” often conjures images of chaos and disruption. Yet, the origin of these digital ...

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 computer virus was created in 1982 by Rich Skrenta, who was 15 at the time and only wanted a way to share computer games with friends. He wrote a program called Elk Cloner that could be ...

Generally speaking, modern computer viruses have one purpose: Making money for some nefarious actor, whether it’s by turning infected machines into link-clicking bots or demanding a ransom to ...

Malware—viruses, worms, Trojan horses and the like—has been around about as long as the first networked computers. In fact, 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the first known computer virus, a ...

RF consultant James Long was enjoying his DVD collection of old Avengers episodes this weekend and was amazed to see a computer virus used in the plotline. The episode name is The Big Thinker. James ...