Historical Events tagged with "Skrenta"
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Richard Skrenta Creates Elk Cloner Boot Virus
January 30th, 1982 43 years ago
Richard Skrenta, a high school student, wrote a 400-line PC virus code known as 'Elk Cloner'. This virus was disguised as an Apple boot program and would infect Apple II computers via floppy disks, spreading through shared disks among users. Initially created as a prank, Elk Cloner was a formative moment in the development of computer viruses, combining creativity with a rudimentary understanding of software vulnerabilities.
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