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Origins Of The Computer Virus
Viruses are scary things, natural or binary; they can swoop in and destroy your system without you even noticing till it's too late. So IT security is imperative when it comes to corporations that deal with IT in some way because at any time you could easily lose all your information in a matter of seconds if a virus takes over. But what is a virus? Why are they so pesky? Who created the first one? To be honest I don't think anyone actually knows about the latter in fine enough detail to be able to possess rights to the first virus, but there are claims out there as the pioneer of the modern computer virus though why anyone would want to claim that as their idea is beyond me, they would most likely become the utmost hated person in the world over night.
Viruses are basically complicated hacking codes that can infiltrate your system and begin to tamper around with basic building blocks of your computer programming. They have many names and many varying functions, good computer virus are apparently the thing of the future. Soon like an update-reminder worms will be sent round to fix holes and bugs in systems that coders have found and they will only be accepted into the computer with your permission. They are normally so pesky because of their nature; they are arrive without warning intended for nothing more than exasperation and nuisance.
The first concept of the self-replicating computer virus program was in 1949 when the mathematician John von Neumann projected specialized computers or self-replicating automata that could build copies of themselves and pass on their programming to their progeny. This is the most basic perception of a computer virus and for 1949 that is a very ahead of its time prediction. No such existing virus was created for around 10 to 20 years later when everything was still on floppy disc, black and white screens, small networks and when the internet was still called by another name.
The first excepted vision of the modern computer virus was in the early 1970's when it was fashioned by Bob Thomas called The Creeper, a jamming based worm virus that attacked a certain computer program on a specific computer system so actually in retrospective it was quite a clever piece of code. After that the next large documented virus was the Elk Corner virus created by a 15 year old American Richard Skrenta who simply wanted to share his computer games with his friends but by accident created a virus, this was the first virus that wasn't created on purpose in a lab. Which creates the debate, was it Bob Thomas or Richard Skrenta? That's for you to debate.
Jeffrey Nevil writes on a number of subjects including corporate it security.
Article submitted Monday, December 12, 2011 & read 3 times.
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