The Anti-Virus Virus and Computer Games Give That Spell Disaster

Bogdan Botezatu

August 26, 2008

Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down.
Free 30-day trial
The Anti-Virus Virus and Computer Games Give That Spell Disaster

Historians are still debating on the actual birth date of the first computer virus, and many of them would dare to place the first malware applications in the mid-1970 timeframe.Three computer models have been surely infected by malware in mid-70s: Univax 1108 and IBM 360/370.

However, theoretical approaches to self-reproducing mathematical automata are estimated to have started in early 1950s. John von Neumann (December 28, 1903

tags


Author



You might also like

Bookmarks


loader