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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: When did computer viruses really start?
Summary: First REAL virus - Fred Cohen,1983?
Message-ID: <377@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 89 19:22:54 GMT
References: <2479@kalliope.rice.edu> <Jan.25.13.21.37.1989.283@ron.rutgers.edu> <440@ispi.UUCP>
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With all of these references to fictional computer viruses, I keep 
waiting for the definitive data on the first REAL computer virus.
I read that a Prof. Fred(?) Cohen at Lehigh claims to have
written the first computer virus around 1983(?).  Anyone have
any more details, confirming or contradicting?

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A. Lester Buck		...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck