On January 19, 1986, the first PC virus — Brain — was detected. It was virtually harmless, and the Pakistani creators claim that it was only intended to protect their copyrights. (They did, after all, include their own address and phone number in the machine code.) In the past 20 years, though, both creating viruses and destroying them have become billion-dollar industries.
posted on Jan 19, 2006 - View this thread

for the bookmarks - free browser-embedded antivirus [IE only, I assume Windows only]
posted on Oct 4, 2005 - View this thread

Microsoft considering anti-virus support and why we should care.
posted on Dec 11, 2001 - View this thread

Rob Rosenberger, editor of Vmyths.com, writes that three uniformed federal police visited him in the middle of the night and asked that he not to publish an upcoming column that would embarrass anti-virus vendor for "national security reasons." From late-October, but intriguing.
posted on Nov 8, 2001 - View this thread

Those British boys at it again. It was like this during the war, y'know. I remember my old mate Alan Turing beating the system in much the same way. Saved the world he did. Tally-ho.
posted on Apr 24, 2001 - View this thread

The bastards at Symantec are now charging for virus updates. They've just lost a customer, a hopefully many more. The feedback form is here if you feel the need to bitch at them.
posted on Aug 12, 2000 - View this thread