Strange Brew (computer virus)

Strange Brew was the first computer virus that infects java code—applets and other programs written in java—rather than exploiting the Java virtual machine runtime interpreter.^[1] It was written in 1998 by a university student as a demonstration of self-replicating java code as a potential security flaw.^[2] Standard security features of the java runtime interpreter prevent its spread in most circumstances.^[3]