Computer virus

Computer virus

1. Game of life was the first virus (1960s)

   • John Conway

2. Began in the 1940s

   • John Von Neumann
     • Published a paper called: Theory of Complicated Automata.

3. Brain

   • The first computer virus created to the MS-DOS
   • Pakistani Brain caused serious damage to computers in 1986
     • The virus Brain was created by two brothers: Basit and Arnjad Farooq Alvi

4. The term was first used in the 1980s

   • Fred Cohen and Len Adleman
     • Len Adleman compare a computer virus to the biological virus
       • IBM is trying to create a computer system immune to cyberatacks
         • is taking inspiration from biological defenses to virus

5. Atacks the prograns and security of computers.