Topic > Essay on Computer Viruses - 754

However there are some viruses which are created for fun by some developers. An example given by Georgi Dalakov (nd) in an article on History-Computer.com is the Creeper virus. This virus was designed not to be destructive at all by deleting data or other things that could actually affect the user, but would simply display a message on the user's screen that would be little more than an annoyance. The message that was displayed is "I'm the Creeper: catch me if you can". This virus was created around 1970 by Robert Thomas before the term computer virus existed, so some consider it to be the first example of a self-replicating computer