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A Brief History of Viral Time
posted by
Thom Holwerda
on Thu 6th Jul 2006 10:31 UTC, submitted by
Jesuspower
"For
about 20 years now
we've been using the term computer viruses to describe self-replicating programs. Although such programs had previously been found on Apple computers, viruses entered the PC world in early 1986 with the Brain virus."
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