A look back to the first computer virus: Elk Cloner
Yahoo! news has a neat story about the guy who purportedly unleashed the first computer virus 25 years ago. It was called Elk Cloner, and was more a harmless prank than anything like what we see today.
You could read the whole story here, if Yahoo! still had it on their site.
A reminder that BOClean, an antitrojan now labeled antimalware, is free since the buyout by Comodo.
Read more about BOClean here.
Elk Cloner was written by Rich Skrenta, who later founded Topix and other worthwhile technology. Rich was doing what many of us were doing back then, programming just because it was fun - and a challenge.
I remember breaking code on copy protected games that required a floppy in the drive in order to play it. A nuisance. And a challenge.
