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A Brief History of Computer Viruses
How experimental code became a global security problem—and what four decades of outbreaks taught us.
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The early timeline is fascinating. The biggest shift seems to be when experimentation turned into an industry.
The article also shows why backups matter: recovery has always been as important as prevention.
I would love to hear which outbreak first changed how everyone here thought about computer security.