Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Blue Boar wrote:

> Drsolly wrote:
> > ROFL! You're right - Brain is 20 years old!
>
> Was that your first one?  Elk is supposed to be the oldest virus in the 
> wild, from 1982?  so ~24 years.
 
I've never spoken to anyone who had actually seen Elk. Given that a lot of 
what was going on in those days was rumour and gossip, I tend to think 
that Brain was the first (unless you buy my theory that Ashar was a Brain 
precursor).

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