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 ...

On February 13, 2006, a screenshot of Apple's upcoming Mac OS X Leopard leaked through iChat. Those who opened the attached ...

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).

This early network also spawned the first computer virus. "I'm the creeper, catch me if you can," is the phrase that many users of ARPANET found unexpectedly popping up on their screens in 1971.

The first computer virus was created by engineer Bob Thomas. In 1971, he wrote the code for a virus called Creeper that could move across a network and between computers, leaving the message “I ...

'Welcome to the dungeon' was the message that flashed up on computer screens in 1986. This was thought to be the first virus for personal computers and became known as 'Brain'.