Read more Elk Cloner stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5552/elk-cloner.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:01:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/6831/pranksters-1st-computer-virus-turns-25.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA prankster who wrote the first computer virus 25 years ago says only, “It was some dumb little practical joke.” Yet Richard Skrenta’s desire to infiltrate other Apple II’s with a poem (“It will get on all your disks; it will infiltrate your chips”) marked the beginning of a worldwide...http://www.newser.com/story/6831/pranksters-1st-computer-virus-turns-25.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 02 Sep 2007 17:56:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/4286/the-computer-virus-turns-25.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA long time ago (1982), in a galaxy not so far, far away, Rich Skrenta, then a clever 9th grader, invented what may have been the first computer virus—Elk Cloner. It was, by current standards, a benign virus that Skrenta installed on his school computer, so that every time...http://www.newser.com/story/4286/the-computer-virus-turns-25.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Jul 2007 16:52:43 CDT