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2013-10-16

1980s, 1988, apple II, virus.

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CyberAIDS, a virus for Apple II from 1988. Extortion ware is nowadays more known as ransom ware.

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2013-10-15

1980s, ascii, virus.

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The Brain virus is considered the first PC virus. Created by Basit Farooq Alvi in 1986.

2013-10-14

1980s, ascii, DOS, virus.

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The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the University of Turin in Italy. The virus would become active if a disk access is made exactly on the half hour and start to show a small “ball” bouncing around the screen in both text mode (the ASCII bullet character “•”) and graphical mode.

2013-10-14

1980s, amiga, ascii, virus.

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Lamer Exterminator (1989) virus for Commodore Amiga.

2013-10-14

1980s, 1987, amiga, scene, switzerland, virus.

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The SCA Virus was probably the first Amiga virus (1987). It became extremely common, and later SCA released a software to remove the virus.

There were many clones of the virus with cool names like 666, AIDS, Bad Bytes 4, Big Boss, Deniz Cool, Disk-Terminator, KarlMarx, LSD, MAX and NASA.

2013-10-14

1980s, c64, petscii, virus.

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BHP (1986) is one of a few Commodore 64 viruses. It is also the first full-stealth file-infecting virus a distinction often wrongly attributed to the DOS Frodo virus.

2013-10-10

1980s, Illustration.

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