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Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:43:12 -0400
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:16:26 BST, David Harley said:
Was that your first one? Elk is supposed to be the oldest virus in the wild, from 1982? so ~24 years.1983, IIRC, though Peter Szor says '82. There seem to have been a couple of Apple II jobbies before that, though, and these weren't the first replicative programs. I decline to be drawn into the "worms vs viruses" argument yet again.
Replicative programs by way of quining were well understood in the mid-60s. I'm fairly sure that there were worm-ish things running around Multics by the mid-70s, and the Jargon File documents a Xerox CP-V hack involving "Robin Hood" and "Friar Tuck" in the mid-70s as well.
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