first reported computer virus is celebrating its 20th birthday today!

happy birthday!

some links:
the register.
another url.

here is a story from dr. alan solomon (drsolly) taken from the funsec list:

here’s “the doomsday virus”.

it was written a year or so after 1986, before i’d actually seen a virus,
after people had started talking about them, and before anyone had
published any kind of analysis.

it was intended for publication in personal computer world (i wrote a lot
of magazines in those days). the editor said he’d liked it and would have
run it, but was worried that it might give people ideas.

http://www.drsolly.com/story/doomsday.art.

gadi evron,
ge@beyondsecurity.com.