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Elk Cloner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread "in the wild," i.e., outside the computer system or lab in which it was written. It was written around 1982 by a 15-year-old hig...
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Computer virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the owner. The term "virus" is also commonly but erroneously used to refer to...
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Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career - taking on Google. ... sinrtb, on 01/03/2008, -2/+8look up the "Elk Cloner" Virus before you pass judgment on him.
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Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started the online news business Topix, helped launch a collaborative Web directory now owned by Time Warner Inc.'s Netscape and wrote countless other computer programs, he is still remembered most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world.
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users had the dubious pleasure of dealing with Rich Skrenta's Elk Cloner, a virus that spread via floppy disks and regularly caused systems to crash.
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Elk Cloner was the first computer virus known to have spread in the wild. Richard Skrenta, then fifteen years old, wrote the virus for the Apple II operating system, which was stored on floppy diskettes. ... When a computer booted from a floppy disk infected with Elk Cloner, the virus would start, and would subsequently...
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