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A history of computer viruses — Introduction

✍ Scribed by Harold Joseph Highland

Book ID
104298007
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
373 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-4048

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✦ Synopsis

Viruses have moved on a long way since then, but the extracts published here provide a useful background in virus development, and contain much information that is still relevant today. It is also interesting to note that Harold introduces the Macro Virus concept a few years before it became more widely identified as a major problem.

In this section we shall present detailed information about a number of computer viruses, specifically when and where the virus was found, how it behaved and a technical report on how it works as well as other relative information. We had hoped to present these data in historical perspective. However, it is too early to prepare a comprehensive history of computer viruses.

This volume is about DOS computer viruses, that is computer viruses that have been found in systems using either IBM-DOS or MS-DOS.

No attempt has been made to cover the many other viruses that have surfaced to infect Macintosh microcomputers.

Nor are any of the VAX viruses included. Furthermore, although we

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