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technology and computing antivirus softwareWho created the first malware?
Last Updated: 11th May, 2020
The earliest documented viruses began to appear intheearly 1970s. Historians often credit the“CreeperWorm,” an experimental self-replicating programwritten byBob Thomas at BBN Technologies with being thefirstvirus.
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In this regard, when was malware first discovered?
The first computer virus, called Elk Cloner,wasdiscovered on a Mac in 1982. In 1986, thefirstPC-based malware, known as Brain, wasreleased.
Subsequently, question is, who invented the first antivirus software and when was it written? There are competing claims for the innovator ofthefirst antivirus product. Possibly, the firstpubliclydocumented removal of an "in the wild" computer virus (i.e.the"Vienna virus") was performed by Bernd Fix in 1987.
Likewise, who discovered first computer virus?
Speaking of computers, here is the story aboutthefirst computer virus ever written. The firstvirusthat attacked MS-DOC is called Brain and was written bytwobrothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, fromLahore,Punjab, Pakistan in 1986.
What was the first virus?
Brain (computer virus) Brain is theindustrystandard name for a computer virus that was releasedin itsfirst form in January 1986, and is considered to bethefirst computer virus for MS-DOS. It infects thebootsector of storage media formatted with the DOS FileAllocationTable (FAT) file system.