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 ...

While the first computer virus (Creeper) was released on the ARPANET as a harmless experiment, the first computer virus to be released in the wild didn't have malicious intent either. Called ...

All in all, it’s rather amusing that the world’s first computer virus that proliferated outside the confines of a research lab was nothing more than a fun teenage prank, a stark contrast to ...

The first full-stealth computer virus. In 1986, Brain was developed by Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were annoyed at having their heart monitoring software copied for free.

Computer viruses have changed a great deal ... Click image to enlarge and to launch image gallery. In 1992, the first virus that caught the attention of the wider public hit the computing world ...

These first microbes would have been extremely simple. But were they viruses or bacteria? Scientists don't have a conclusive answer, partly because it's difficult to recreate more than 4 billion ...

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer ...

The controversy over Swartz's prosecution echoes some of the public response to the very first person convicted under the Computer Fraud ... on how to dismantle the virus. (It was apparently ...