History of Computer Virus
A Virus was a program that infected computers to cause a computer system to perform unintended actions. The main purpose of a virus was to spread a malicious program that could cause damage. Virus infections first appeared in the 1970s. In some cases, viruses were used to steal passwords or to access sensitive data, but in most cases they were created to steal money.
In the 20th century, computers were the basic tool of the human race, but did not yet fully take over the world due to the lack of a reliable antivirus program. The origins of computer viruses can be traced back to the early 1930s, when an Austrian man named Karl Ewald was exposed to a virus that he had created in 1894. In spite of the fact that the virus was safe to use, it infected some of the most important industries of the time, such as the steel industry and the railroads.The first computer virus was introduced in 1994, by David Smith in the offices of the company he worked for. He was a programmer who made his home in the company's Boston office, and was well known for his computer virus design. This virus would attack the computers of those who were using computer virus programs, and kill them, with a simple click of the mouse. The virus was called Horsepower.
The origins of computer viruses can be traced back to the 1960s, when a virus was created by a teenage computer programmer named Ken Thompson, and was incorrectly named 'Mozart Virus'. The virus was given the name of a famous composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, and infected numerous computers, turning them into computers infected with the virus and rendering them unusable. The virus would later be called the 'Trojan Horse'.
The Trojan Horse virus was first introduced in 1993. The name of the virus, 'Trojan Horse.