Rich Skrenta

Inventor of the World's First Computer Virus and Anti Virus Discoverer First Time In The World
Richard "Rich" Skrenta (born 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer pemogram and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. In 1982, as a high school student in High School Mt. Lebanon, Skrenta make Elk Cloner virus that attacks Apple II machines. It was widely believed to be the first virus ever created.


Skrenta graduated from Northwestern University. Between 1989 and 1991 he worked at Commodore Business Machines with Amiga Unix. Between 1991 and 1995 he worked at Unix System Labs and from 1996 to 1998 with the IP-level encryption on Sun Microsystems. He eventually left Sun and became one of the founders of the Open Directory Project.

Viruses are a major component of the damage the performance of a computer, when sendainya a computer virus has affected the computer then the computer will work very slowly, even the most fatal impact is going to make the loss of data. The presence of this virus will come out of nowhere and we did not know the origin of the virus. At this time I will explain the inventor and manufacturer of computer viruses.


Elk Cloner virus is expressed as a micro-computer spread out of scope pembuatanya place. Created in 1982 by a high school student who was 15 years old. He was named Rich Skrenta. Virus he created, as it is intended for the Apple II computer system.


Inventor of the World's First Computer Virus

It all started at the time Skrenta no longer be trusted by your garden. This was caused by his conduct that illegally share games and software, he would often use a floppy disk to turn off the computer or to display the mocking words on the screen. Skrenta was finally devised a method to do it without a floppy disk so that he is not suspected.

During winter break in Mt. Lebanon High School, Pennsylvania, USA, Skrenta discover how to automatically display a message on his computer. And finally he found it is often referred to as a boot sector virus, and began to spread among the friends of the school as well as in a computer club.

Virus obtained from sources which it quickly spread and infect floppy disk successful people he knew, including his math teacher. The virus infected a lot of hassle victims. Can imagine how difficult it because there is no antivirus itubelum. Elk Cloner virus can only be removed manually with a complicated step.
Elk Cloner spread by infecting the Apple II operating system with a boot sector virus techniques. This means that if you boot the computer using the floppy disk that had been infected with the virus will be automatically copied to memory. And if there is a clean floppy disk inserted into a computer virus will copy itself to floppy it.
Infected computer will display a poem on the screen when booting into 50.


Here,, man who first made the problem of the virus that has infected many computers in the world, but we also do not deserve blame, Because it is the advancement of technology in the era of increasingly sophisticated.
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