Aliases | The First Computer Virus |
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Type | Jamming Software, Worm |
Isolation | 1971 |
Author(s) | Bob Thomas |
Operating system(s) affected | TENEX |
Creeper was an experimental self-replicating program written by Bob Thomas at BBN[1] in 1971. It was designed not to damage but to demonstrate a mobile application.[2] It is generally accepted to be the first computer worm,[3] although the notion of a "computer virus" did not exist in the 1970s.[2] Creeper infected DEC PDP-10 computers running the TENEX operating system.
Initial release | 1972 |
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Development status | Historic |
Operating system | TENEX |
The Reaper program was created to delete Creeper.[4]