Computer Virus was born as a "prank" for teenagers aged 25 years and 15 years old"

25 years ago, a 15-year-old student wrote the world's first computer virus. At first, it was just a "little prank", but now tens of thousands of viruses have become a nightmare for all computer users, the arrival of the Internet era provides a new mode for virus transmission.

The Associated Press reported that Ricky srenta was the "First Person in computer viruses", even though he had his own business in the IT industry, however, he was most mentioned about the release of the "elkcloner" virus in the world. The virus will replicate itself, but it is maliciousProgramThere are almost no similarities. However, looking back on the past, it is the originator of all the headaches of security.

The computer security problem increases with the computer penetration rate. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of viruses, maybe more than 100,000. With the development of the Internet, their dissemination methods and "toxicity" have also developed. For example, some early viruses destroy the network, and the subsequent viruses destroy files or have other devastating characteristics. Later versions of the virus spread through instant messaging and file sharing software, and some vulnerabilities through the windows network function spread faster.

However, many recent malicious programs are technically not viruses because they do not replicate themselves, but are vulnerable to infections when users browse malicious websites. These websites can exploit any security vulnerabilities in computer software. Virus writers also look at emerging platforms, including mobile devices and network-based services, such as social networking websites.

Dave Cole, director of Symantec's security response center, said: "programmers of malicious programs do not think that you only use computers and do not want to limit their goals to computers ."

Computer security expert Fred Cohen wrote a doctoral thesis on computer viruses in 1986. He said at the time that once the conditions were ripe, as more and more families had computers, "the emergence of viruses was just a matter of time ".

In fact, there were many elkcloner viruses before they appeared, but they were experimental or spread within a limited range. Many people think that the virus compiled by Spark is the first real virus because it was spread on mainstream home computers.

(Source: Xinhuanet)