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Saturday, September 1, 2007

Celebrating 25 years of computer viruses

The Globe and Mail has an interesting story about the first computer virus, created by Rich Skrenta in the 9th grade as a prank, the “Elk Cloner” was a self replicating program that was in effect the world's first “boot sector” virus. Skrenta has gone on the bigger and better things as a coder and business man but will likely always be known for this dubious honor. Little did he know what he had started!

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