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: -Creeper was a worm-a type of computer virus that replicates itself and spreads to other systems. In this case, its targets were Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computers which were linked to ARPANET.

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.