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What was the first computer virus name and year of the first virus attack?

What was the first computer virus name and year of the first virus attack?

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  1. im pretty sure it was called brain and was spread by floppy disk. around 20 yrs ago
  2. 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 Edit: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
  3. 1975 a virus called Pervade was discovered in Univac
  4. It was like Twenty-five years ago, a 15-year-old high school freshman named Richard Skrenta wrote the world's first computer virus called Elk Cloner on an Apple II computer.
  5. 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. This virus was originally a joke, created by the high school student and put onto a game. The game was set to play, but release the virus on the 50th time of starting the game. Only this time, instead of playing the game, it would change to a blank screen that read a poem about the virus named Elk Cloner. The computer would then be infected.
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