Introduction

What?

Small stories on how malicious software (malware) has evolved into the complicated viruses we may be exposed to today.

Why?

Context setting.

How?

• Interview with Ray Tomlinson on Creeper/Reaper

• Malware spotlight: Wabbit

• The Animal Episode

• Elk-Cloner: The 30-year-old prank that became the first computer virus

• With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988

• YouTube: Virus.DOS.Cascade

• onx/CASCADE