Creeper. To be 100% fair to Bob Thomas, the first computer virus, known as Creeper, wasn’t sent with any malicious intent. Instead, it was mostly a case of experimentation in whether or not code ...

Forty years ago today is considered by many to be the birthday of the first computer virus. Of course, in the early 1970s they weren't called computer viruses, but that doesn't make Bob Thomas's ...

‘I’m the Creeper: Catch me if you can.’ The first known recorded instance of a computer virus was the Creeper Worm, developed by Robert H. Thomas in 1971.

The computer virus has reached a new milestone: Its 40th birthday.. And the evolution from the crude Creeper virus on 1971 to last year's Stuxnet virus, which could very well have marked the first ...

The first computer virus was named Creeper, created in 1971 by Robert Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which later became part of Raytheon).. Unlike the ...

But if we fast-forward to the 1970s, the world's first computer virus actually sprang up. Called the Creeper virus, it was first detected on ARPAnet--a U.S. military computer network that was the ...

This year is the 40th anniversary of the first computer virus: Creeper in 1971. Guillaume Lovet, senior manager of the threat response team at Fortinet, looks back at the most intriguing viruses ...

Creeper virus (1971) Computer pioneer John von Neumann’s posthumous work Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, which posited the idea of computer code that could reproduce and spread itself, ...