COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS A COMPUTER VIRUS
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Creeper itself.
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CREEPER THE 2ND
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Reeper (minus C)
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Reaper
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Creeper virus’s development gave birth to Ray Tomlison’s Reaper, the first antivirus software designed to stop threats like it. Interestingly, though, Reaper is a computer worm itself programmed to delete all instances of Creeper in infected computers.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Reaper was the first anti-virus software, designed to delete Creeper by moving across the ARPANET. It was created by Ray Tomlinson in 1972.
Detailed explanation-5: -Creeper was named for a character on the “Scooby-Doo” cartoon show, is recognized as the first computer virus. It was written in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN Technologies and spread through DEC PDP-10 computers on ARPAnet. It used to display the message, “I’m the creeper, catch me if you can!".