History of Computer Virus and Present

A malicious piece of code written by an individual to perform an unethical task is a Computer Virus. It has the potential for unexpected programs to run in background, stealing information and sending it to a person sitting on other side of the network, corrupts and destroys the data.

A virus file requires victim to perform an action to activate, infect and spread from one system to another.

Mostly, teens of school and college create them to become famous or accepting challenges from friends.

John Von Neumann introduced a theory on “Self Re-producing Machines” which seems to be like a Sci-fi movies in those days of computing. To define its work in more detail, Von Neumann invented the concept of cellular automaton .