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Article: A quarter century of tech bugs.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 26, 2007
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Byline: Chris Gaylord Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
In 1982, the only computer virus people had to worry about was something of a poet. Once the mischievous code lodged itself into an Apple II computer, the virus spouted verse:
"It will get on all your disks/ It will infiltrate your chips/ Yes it's Cloner!" the bardic virus displayed on screens every 50th time the machine started up. "It will stick to you like glue/ It will modify RAM too/ Send in the Cloner!"
If only today's computer viruses were so benign.
Twenty-five years later, the worms, bots, and other "malware" that sneak onto computers are far more than mere annoyances. They swindle ...