There is now a large financial incentive as seen with the explosion of the latest ransomware, the WannaCry malware. Now we have the Internet and a zillion more PC users, and the incentive for those who produce malware is no longer mischief or experimentation. Viruses spread globally but this took many months, sometimes years. In fact, the first computer virus was called Elk Cloner and was found on an early Apple Mac in 1982.īack in the day, a few years after I first started using a personal computer (an Apple II+ in 1979-80), the first virus strains were spread by infection obtained through inserting a contaminated floppy disk into your computer. ![]() Malware on a computer is as old as the first computers. No matter what you hear from the fake news outlets, no computer, no brand, and no type is 100% safe. ![]() Over the years, malware has evolved it can affect smartphones and tablets as well as all computers. Malware, the collective name for viruses, Trojan horses and other malicious software that can infect your computer, has been in the news lately, probably more than at any time I can remember.
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