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From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: When did computer viruses really start?
Message-ID: <Jan.25.13.21.37.1989.283@ron.rutgers.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 89 18:21:40 GMT
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I'm not sure about the medical obsession, but the concept
of a computer virus was certainly used in Science Fiction
stories for well over ten years.  The idea of a program
that gets loose and takes over all the computers is pretty
classic, even if it wasn't called a virus.

Certainly the infamous Bell Labs cpp feature is classifiable
as a virus and by my estimates must have existed about 12
years ago.

-Ron