Who created the computer virus?

Question

And how come they change and grow, so we always have to update our ant-viruses programs!

Answer 1

It's a constant battle between the virus protection poeple, and the ar**ho*es that write the viruses.

Answer 2

Computer viruses tend to grab our attention.There are many viruses, and all of them are created by computer programmers, only because they know how to do it! Computer viruses are called viruses because they share some of the traits of biological viruses. A computer virus passes from computer to computer like a biological virus passes from person to person.

The most common are:

Viruses - A virus is a small piece of software that piggybacks on real programs. For example, a virus might attach itself to a program such as a spreadsheet program. Each time the spreadsheet program runs, the virus runs, too, and it has the chance to reproduce (by attaching to other programs) or wreak havoc.

E-mail viruses - An e-mail virus moves around in e-mail messages, and usually replicates itself by automatically mailing itself to dozens of people in the victim's e-mail address book.

Worms - A worm is a small piece of software that uses computer networks and security holes to replicate itself. A copy of the worm scans the network for another machine that has a specific security hole. It copies itself to the new machine using the security hole, and then starts replicating from there, as well.

Trojan horses - A Trojan horse is simply a computer program. The program claims to do one thing (it may claim to be a game) but instead does damage when you run it (it may erase your hard disk). Trojan horses have no way to replicate automatically.

Answer 3

Do you belive me if i say that the antivirus company and some software company itself create viruses. Why? Because they want to sell their product. Just few week ago i found this article but i lost the link. It state the antivirus company and sofware developers are the one who create viruses in order to test the effectiveness of their antivirus product or programs. Their excuse to do this just for a reseach pupose. They produce million of viruses to the wild and some of them had been pick up by hackers, who then tranaform them into more dangerous type..
I quite shock with these statement. All these time they make me belive that hackers and other computer geek who create viruses. Gosh!

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Answer 4

You seem to think there's only a single computer virus that constantly changes but that's not true, in the same way that there's no single illness that can affect humans. There's literally hundreds of thousands of computer viruses created by different people, and there's more created every day, hence why you need to keep your AV software up to date to deal with the latest threats.

Answer 5

Richard "Rich" Skrenta, in 1982.

The reason you have to update your antivirus program is because of the way antivirus software works. A virus is a file. Virus scanners look at the contents of the file and compares them to the records in the scanner's database (usually called "definitions") to see if they're viruses. When a new virus comes out, it's not in the database so the scanners can't catch it.

Answer 6

A program called "Elk Cloner" is credited with being the first computer virus to appear "in the wild" -- that is, outside the single computer or lab where it was created. Written in 1982 by Rich Skrenta, it attached itself to the Apple DOS 3.3 operating system and spread by floppy disk.

The first PC virus was a boot sector virus called (c)Brain, created in 1986 by two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, operating out of Lahore, Pakistan. The brothers reportedly created the virus to deter pirated copies of software they had written. However, analysts have claimed that the Ashar virus, a variant of Brain, possibly predated it based on code within the virus.

Answer 7

Sneezy from Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs

Answer 8

viruses started in the days of floppy disks and were originally simple code used by students to use as a prank,no one individual invented a virus,they just sort of appeared,and re-appeared and .....well the rest is history

Answer 9

numerous people have created computer viruses, we have to update to deal with the latest ones created, they are all different and target different parts of you software.

Answer 10

Sad computer geeks with nothing better 2 do.
Do U notice it gets worse when the kids break up 4 Summer Holls?
They do it coz they can.
Well that's what they tell me.