Elk Cloner
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Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread "in the wild", i.e., outside the computer system or laboratory in which it was written.[1][2][3][4] It attached itself to the Apple II operating system and spread by floppy disk. It was written around 1982 by programmer and entrepreneur Rich Skrenta as a 15-year-old high school student, originally as a joke, and put onto a game disk.
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Common name | Elk Cloner |
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Classification | Computer virus |
Type | Apple II series |
Subtype | Boot sector virus |
Isolation | 1982 |
Point of isolation | Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Point of origin | Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Author(s) | Rich Skrenta |
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