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Who Invented the Computer Virus?

• kleer001 12y ago
  better title: "Who first distributed personal computer viruses?" Still informative and entertaining. I would credit the original virus to John von Neuman and Bob Thomas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_and_worms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_an...
• maslam 12y ago
  I grew up in Lahore, Pakistan and knew Basit Alvi - he is a super smart guy who ran a modem-based ISP (BrainNET) long before we had high-speed Internet. He's a hacker at heart.
  • infosecpoke 12y ago
    Who does he now work for?
    • maslam 12y ago
      As the article mentioned, he runs one of the largest ISPs in Pakistan called BrainNET. At least that's what I remember.