Article: 'A dumb little practical joke': First personal computer virus

Article: High school practical joke 25 years ago ushers in era of malicious computer viruses
Post-Tribune (IN);  September 2, 2007 ;     573 words ......remembered most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world. "It was...placeholder for (all that) I've done." "Elk Cloner" -- self-replicating, like all...When it boots, or starts up, an infected disk places a copy of the virus in...that disk as well. The newly infected ...

Article: No way to delete this No. 1 rank for region
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world. "It...all that) I've done." "Elk Cloner" -- self-replicating like...boots, or starts up, an infected disk places a copy of the virus...disk as well. The newly infected disk is passed on to other people...50th time ...

Article: Computer viruses turn 25
Oakland Tribune;  September 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ......most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world. "It...all that) I've done." "Elk Cloner" -- self-replicating like...boots, or starts up, an infected disk places a copy of the virus...disk as well. The newly infected disk is passed on to other people...50th time ...

Article: Viruses' beginning innocuous
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world. "It...all that) I've done." "Elk Cloner" -- self-replicating like...boots, or starts up, an infected disk places a copy of the virus...disk as well. The newly infected disk is passed on to other people...50th time ...

Article: 25 years ago, joke began computer-virus era
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  September 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ......most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world. "It...all that) I've done." "Elk Cloner" - self-replicating like...boots, or starts up, an infected disk places a copy of the virus...disk as well. The newly infected disk is passed on to other people...50th time ...

Article: PC viruses began as a prank 25 years ago
Daily Breeze;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world. "It...all that) I've done." "Elk Cloner" - self-replicating like...boots, or starts up, an infected disk places a copy of the virus...disk as well. The newly infected disk is passed on to other people...50th time ...

Article: birth of the computer virus.(Business)
The Virginian Pilot;  September 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ......most for unleashing the Elk Cloner virus on the world. It was...for (all that) I've done. Elk Cloner - self-replicating, like...boots, or starts up, an infected disk places a copy of the virus...disk as well. The newly infected disk is passed on to other people...50th ...

Article: Meet the originator of the computer virus
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 3, 2007 ;     419 words ......programs, he is still remembered most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world. "It was some dumb little practical...But it's an odd placeholder for [all] I've done." "Elk Cloner" — self-replicating like all other viruses...boot sector" virus. When it boots, or starts up, an ...

Article: Birthday for virus.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  July 15, 2007 ;     108 words ......actually predates the arrival of the first IBM-compatible PC. Elk Cloner, which spread between Apple II computers via infected floppy...wipe hard drives or trawl computers for personal information, Elk Cloner merely typed out a few lines of poetry. CAPTION(S): Anniversary...

Article: Computer viruses revisited. (Tech Talk)
Computer Shopper;  June 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......sectors of your hard disk or floppy disk. When you boot from an infected disk, the virus does its damage--from destroying all or part of...after being run from a program host. After booting up from an infected disk, every program that's run can be infected, too. Besides replicating...

Article: Virus protection: if there are no Mac viruses, who needs an antivirus program?(FEATURES)(Product/service evaluation)
Macworld;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......antivirus software? The Threat In 1982, the Elk Cloner virus spread among Apple IIs by copying...booted, a poem would appear on its screen. Elk Cloner didn't do any actual damage, but it certainly...virus before. Twenty-four years after Elk Cloner, Leap-A emerged. Disguised as an ...

Article: COMPUTER EXPERTS: DEADLY VIRUS LOOMS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  August 21, 1996 ;     700+ words ......somewhat is that they don't spread on contact. Simply putting an infected disk in a computer, for example, won't spread the virus. It can...computer executes, or if the computer tries to "boot up" from an infected disk. The Hare virus is being sent primarily through Internet...

Article: 25 Years of Computer Viruses
NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday;  July 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the way, producing bad poetry. His program, known today as Elk Cloner, was the first known computer virus to spread in the wild...about it. And every now and then, it would tell you, it was Elk Cloner, the program with personality, along with, yeah, the bad poetry...

Article: QUICK RESPONSE PROTECTS MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S CUSTOMERS; SMALL-SCALE PRODUCT RECALL AFFECTS FEWER THAN 200 CUSTOMERS
PR Newswire;  June 15, 1995 ;     597 words ......virus will only infect a hard drive if a user reboots the computer with an infected disk in the drive (i.e., if the user attempts to boot the computer from the infected disk). As a result, it is likely that most computers using the Windows dictionary...