razorsedge
September 29th, 2010, 11:23 PM
In 1986, the first PC virus was created. It was the Brain virus from Pakistan. Brain was a boot sector virus and only infected 360k floppy disks. Interestingly, even though it was the first virus, it had full-stealth capability.
Stoned was the first MBR infector and was written by a student at the University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Several innovative viruses appeared in 1992:
* EXEBug introduced CMOS modification to prevent clean booting.
* Groove was the first .EXE infecting MtE virus. It also targeted many anti-virus products.
* Invol was the first .SYS infector. It was also slightly polymorphic.
* Starship was a SPM, slow infector. It also introduced a new way to infect the hard drive.
* V-Sign was the first polymorphic boot sector virus.
* WinVer 1.4 was the first Windows virus.
There are competing claims for the innovator of the first antivirus product. Possibly the first publicly documented removal of a computer virus in the wild was performed by Bernd Fix in 1987.
By the end of 1990 there were a number of anti-virus products available.
* AntiVirus Plus from Iris
* Certus from Certus International
* Data Physician from Digital Dispatch
* Turbo Antivirus from Carmel
* Virex-PC from Microcom
* Virucide (McAfee’s Pro-Scan) from Parsons
* Virusafe from Elia Shim
* ViruScan from McAfee
* Dr. Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit from S&S
* F-Prot from Frisk Software
* ThunderByte from ESaSS
* Vaccine from Sophos
* Vaccine from World Wide Data
* V-Analyst from BRM
* Vet from Cybec
* VirusBuster from Hunix
* Virscan from IBM
* Vi-Spy from RG Software
One other product appeared in December of 1990. Its release foreshadowed a new direction the antivirus industry would take in 1991.
The product was Norton AntiVirus!
Stoned was the first MBR infector and was written by a student at the University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Several innovative viruses appeared in 1992:
* EXEBug introduced CMOS modification to prevent clean booting.
* Groove was the first .EXE infecting MtE virus. It also targeted many anti-virus products.
* Invol was the first .SYS infector. It was also slightly polymorphic.
* Starship was a SPM, slow infector. It also introduced a new way to infect the hard drive.
* V-Sign was the first polymorphic boot sector virus.
* WinVer 1.4 was the first Windows virus.
There are competing claims for the innovator of the first antivirus product. Possibly the first publicly documented removal of a computer virus in the wild was performed by Bernd Fix in 1987.
By the end of 1990 there were a number of anti-virus products available.
* AntiVirus Plus from Iris
* Certus from Certus International
* Data Physician from Digital Dispatch
* Turbo Antivirus from Carmel
* Virex-PC from Microcom
* Virucide (McAfee’s Pro-Scan) from Parsons
* Virusafe from Elia Shim
* ViruScan from McAfee
* Dr. Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit from S&S
* F-Prot from Frisk Software
* ThunderByte from ESaSS
* Vaccine from Sophos
* Vaccine from World Wide Data
* V-Analyst from BRM
* Vet from Cybec
* VirusBuster from Hunix
* Virscan from IBM
* Vi-Spy from RG Software
One other product appeared in December of 1990. Its release foreshadowed a new direction the antivirus industry would take in 1991.
The product was Norton AntiVirus!