Timeline for What was the first intentional malware that got spread over multiple machines?
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| Feb 24, 2017 at 19:00 | comment | added | Aaron | @peterferrie Thanks for the clarification. It's really interesting how early forms of malware were engineered around the tech constraints of the time. | |
| Feb 24, 2017 at 18:57 | comment | added | peter ferrie | the virus was 6kb long. It didn't fit entirely into the boot sector. The clusters were marked bad to hold the rest of the virus along with the original boot sector. | |
| May 9, 2016 at 21:19 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Wow, I actually saw this in the wild back in the day but didn't realize it was significant at the time. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 18:22 | comment | added | Mark | @Aaron, many of the early viruses weren't deliberately destructive, they just weren't programmed defensively enough to deal with the huge variety of computer systems out there. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | Aaron | @StephenKitt Good find! Curious as to how they mention that it wasn't destructive while others claim that it was. I like how Mikko gave them a copy of their virus on a 5.25" floppy at the end...very cool. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 15:19 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | Mikko Hypponen made an interesting video tracking down the original authors of the Brain virus. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 14:45 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 25, 2016 at 14:40 | history | answered | Aaron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |