FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -As noted by Discovery, the Creeper program, often regarded as the first virus, was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN. Creeper was actually designed as a security test to see if a self-replicating program was possible.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Creeper virus works by infecting one computer, causing it to print a file. It will then stop working while looking for another TENEX system. It establishes a connection with that computer and so on. After it’s done with a system, its final payload or effect is to display its message.

Detailed explanation-3: -Creeper was an experimental computer program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971.

Detailed explanation-4: -Once infected by Creeper, the affected computer would display a message saying “I’M THE CREEPER. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!”, and would start printing a file, only to then stop this action, and jump to another computer on the network.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sometime in the early 1970s, the Creeper virus was detected on ARPANET, a US military computer network which was the forerunner of the modern Internet.