> The man behind the world's first major computer virus outbreak > The Love Bug pandemic began on 4 May, 2000. The Melissa virus happened the year prior.[1] T

> The man behind the world's first major computer virus outbreak > The Love Bug pandemic began on 4 May, 2000. The Melissa virus happened the year prior.[1] The Morris worm[2] happened in 1988. Also, interestingly, PG shows up in the article for that one, > It is usually reported that around 6,000 major UNIX machines were infected by the Morris worm; however, Morris' colleague Paul Graham claimed, "I was there when this statistic was cooked up, and this was the recipe: someone guessed that there were about 60,000 computers attached to the Internet, and that the worm might have infected ten percent of them." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm