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First Time A Computer Virus Recognized as Virus

Sunday, November 3, 2013 6:12

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Today in 1983, Fred Chen writes, “the first virus was conceived of as an experiment to be presented at a weekly seminar on computer security. The concept was first introduced in this seminar by the author, and the name ‘virus’ was thought of by Len Adleman. After 8 hours of expert work on a heavily loaded VAX 11/750 system running Unix, the first virus was completed and ready for demonstration. Within a week, permission was obtained to perform experiments, and 5 experiments were performed. On November 10, the virus was demonstrated to the security seminar.”

In 1984 Fred Cohen published his paper “Computer Viruses – Theory and Experiments,” the first paper to explicitly call a self-reproducing program a “virus”, a term introduced by Cohen’s mentor Leonard Adleman.

Source: http://infostory.com/2013/11/03/first-time-a-computer-virus-recognized-as-virus/

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