Virtual Virus

Virtual Virus

1. John Von Neumann

   • He published an article in 1940s on the possibility of duplication computer program

2. 1940s

   • John Conway
     •  Created the first computer virus
     • Game of Life
       • The virus that resembled a game signified

3. 1970s

   • large companies develop the first program that copies itself
   • Big companies
     • organisms
       • first program that copies itself

4. 1980s

   • pointed out the similarity between sofware that copies itself and biological virus
   • Lean Adleman

5. 1983s

   • comes the term computer virus
   • Fred Cohen and Len Adleman
     • Computer virus

6. 1986

   • The first reports of serious damage from a pc virus
   • Basit and Amajad Farooq
     • virus creators
     • Pakistani Brain virus