(symantec, sophus, mcafee) How did viruses originate? ... The first reported case of a virus designed to cause damage to a computer system was not until 1986. ... It wrote over the boot sector of the hard disk making the system unable to start. ... The virus had the ability to send itself to everyone in the infected users address book allowing it to spread round the whole world quickly. ... How does a typical virus scanner work? ...

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