The First Person Ever To Spread A Computer Virus

This is the story of the first person ever to spread a computer virus. Created in 1982 by a high school student who was 15 years old. He was named Rich Skrenta. Virus he created, as it is intended for the Apple II computer system.


At that time Skrenta was no longer trusted by his friends. This was caused by his conduct in illegally share games and software, he would often use a floppy disk to turn off the computer or to display the mocking words on the screen. Skrenta was finally devised a method to do it without a floppy disk so that he is not suspected.

During winter break in Mt. Lebanon High School, Pennsylvania, USA, Skrenta discover how to automatically display a message on his computer. And finally he found what today is called the boot sector virus, and began to spread among the friends of the school as well as in a club komputer.Dari source of the virus gained success quickly spread and infect the floppy disk of people whom he knew, including math teacher. The virus infected a lot of hassle victims. Can imagine how difficult it because it was not one antivirus. Elk Cloner virus can only be removed manually with a complicated step.


Elk Cloner spread by infecting the Apple II operating system with a boot sector virus techniques. This means that if you boot the computer using the floppy disk that had been infected with the virus will be automatically copied to memory. And if there is a clean floppy disk inserted into a computer virus will copy itself to floppy it.


Infected computer will display a poem on the screen when booting for the 50th times.

That's the story of the first person ever to spread a computer virus, but he's not to blame, because it is all the side effect of the advancement of technology, don't always expect good things, but also be prepared for the worst.

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