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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

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Though this work began in the 1940s, it, along with his other work in the field of self-replication, was eventually compiled and distributed via the 1966 paper “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata.”. Created by the brothers Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi, the virus was meant to track pirated copies of certain disks.