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

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> 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. 

-- 
David Harley
Security Author & Consultant
Small Blue-Green World
dharley () smallblue-greenworld co uk


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