{"id":642,"date":"2006-01-20T21:47:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T02:47:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:47","slug":"twenty_years_of_computer_viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/01\/20\/twenty_years_of_computer_viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years of computer viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Vnunet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It is 20 years since the release of the world’s first PC virus, according to antivirus firm F-Secure.<\/p>\n

‘Brain’ was a boot sector virus created by two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, to protect a game they had written.<\/p>\n

The exact day of creation is open to question, however, and some experts have suggested that the ‘Ashar’ virus pre-dated ‘Brain’.<\/p>\n

These viruses were spread via floppy disc and could be avoided fairly simply by making the disc read-only. Since then virus propagation has become significantly easier, and transmission rates have skyrocketed since the birth of the internet.<\/p>\n

“It will be interesting to see what kind of viruses we will be talking about in another 20 years – computer viruses infecting household appliances perhaps?” said Mikko Hypp\u00f6nen, chief research officer at F-Secure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Vnunet: It is 20 years since the release of the world’s first PC virus, according to antivirus firm F-Secure. ‘Brain’ was a boot sector virus created by two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, to protect a game they had written. The exact day of creation is open to question, however, and some experts …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}