Social issues in information technology
We learn a lot of history in school but have you ever learned about the history of a computer virus? Ever wondered when the first computer virus came into existence? What it's name was?
The first Computer virus was made by Von Neumann. His computer virus does not have a name but the design he made is called the "World's first computer virus". By 1980s, personal computers were being used and that's when viruses started to get their recognition. Before that computers were only used by scientists. After that, the first computer worm came into existence when scientists were studying more and more about the internet, "The Creeper Virus". The first known trojan virus was called the "Pest Trap" virus. Mostly referred as "Spy Sheriff". It is not the first trojan virus but it is the first recognized trojan. It was very hard to erase as it would install itself again and again using hidden files if it was uninstalled. The first fork bomb to ever be created was "wabbit". Though, a similar version of it called "RABBITS" was created before but it wasn't recognized as a fork bomb. Wabbit is very dangerous as it replicates itself and putting stress on the CPU and taking up all of the computer resources causing the computer to deny the required data to run a program. |