The Virus turns 30
Posted: 04 Feb 2013, 20:49
Happy birthday Virus. 
On the 4th of February 1983 a young computer student, Fred Cohen (friend of yours rolf?) was sitting in a class room at the University of California, writing a software that could infect a computer and take control over it.
This was not the first software written that could do that but the new thing was the name .
Cohen was the first that called this phenomena a Virus (at least in public). 4 years later Cohen was the first to show that it was virtually impossible to write mathematical algorithms that could prevent/detect all viruses.
Eh..thank you for that Cohen.....
And if you wondered what Cohen is doing today? ... He is 57 years old and running a computer security company
Talk about creating your own market.
On the 4th of February 1983 a young computer student, Fred Cohen (friend of yours rolf?) was sitting in a class room at the University of California, writing a software that could infect a computer and take control over it.
This was not the first software written that could do that but the new thing was the name .
Cohen was the first that called this phenomena a Virus (at least in public). 4 years later Cohen was the first to show that it was virtually impossible to write mathematical algorithms that could prevent/detect all viruses.
Eh..thank you for that Cohen.....
And if you wondered what Cohen is doing today? ... He is 57 years old and running a computer security company
Talk about creating your own market.
