COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS A COMPUTER VIRUS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Basit Farooq Alvi
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BBN technologies
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Neumann’s
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all of these
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none of these
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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 an experimental computer program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971.
Detailed explanation-3: -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!".
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.