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2. Creeper and Reaper - Wikipedia

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   Creeper was an experimental computer program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971. Its original iteration was designed to move between DEC PDP-10 mainframe computers running the TENEX operating system using the ARPANET , with a later version by Ray Tomlinson designed to copy itself between computers rather than simply move. [3]

3. Computer worm - Wikipedia

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   Spread of Conficker worm. A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. [1] It often uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures on the target computer to access it. It will use this machine as a host to scan and infect other computers.

4. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   Computer virus. Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles. A computer virus [1] is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.

5. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   November 10: Agobot is a computer worm that can spread itself by exploiting vulnerabilities on Microsoft Windows. Some of the vulnerabilities are MS03-026 and MS05-039. [35] November 20: Bolgimo is a computer worm that spread itself by exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability at Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface.

6. Brain (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   Original author (s) Amjad Farooq Alvi. Initial release. 19 January 1986. Platform. IBM Personal Computer, IBM PC compatibles. Type. Boot sector computer virus. Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form on 19 January 1986, [1] and is considered to be the first computer virus for the IBM Personal ...

7. Zero-day vulnerability - Wikipedia

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   Zero-day vulnerability. A zero-day (also known as a 0-day) is a vulnerability in software or hardware that is typically unknown to the vendor and for which no patch or other fix is available. The vendor has zero days to prepare a patch as the vulnerability has already been described or exploited. Despite developers' goal of delivering a product ...