What you need to know about computer Viruses
For over 50 years, computer viruses have been developed and each year with the advent of the digital age as we know it, many viruses are created with more efficacy than the one before. It’s a constant cat and mouse game between virus developers and Anti-Virus software companies around the world. Since 1971, with the creation of the very first computer Virus called ‘Creeper system’, a wide variety of viruses have primarily been designed to shut down systems, steal information and/or disable peoples processing power all together. In 1971 ‘Creeper system’ was created by a technology company in the US purely to replicate itself and fill up the hard drive of a computer to capacity until it could no longer operate. In 1986, ‘Brain’, a computer virus originally designed as a copy protection for MS-DOS, landed up stopping the computer from booting up at all. Then in 1988, a US…