History of Malware

Prompts and answers

• Who re-designed the Creeper Virus?
  Ray Tomlinson
• How is data transferred through a network?
  Packet Switching
• Who created the first concept of a virus?
  John von Neumann
• What text did the Creeper program print to the screen?
  I'm the Creeper, catch me if you can!
• What does ARPANET stand for?
  Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
• Which team created the network control program?
  Network Working Group
• What is the first virus commonly known as?
  Creeper
• Who created Reaper?
  Ray Tomlinson
• What type of malware may Reaper be known as?
  Nematode
• What was the first ever anti-virus program known as?
  Reaper
• What was Bob Thomas' main project to develop?
  A resource-sharing capability
• Research: What does API stand for?
  Application Programming Interface
• What is a modern day fork bomb also known as?
  Denial of service attack
• Was Rabbit one of the first malicious programs? (Y/N)
  Y
• What did the name "Wabbit" derive from?
  Looney Tunes Cartoons
• When was PERVADE added to ANIMAL?
  1975
• Did John think this was a good idea? (Y/N)
  Y
• What computers did the program spread across?
  UNIVACs
• What type of malware is ANIMAL also known as?
  A Trojan
• Who built the wooden horse?
  The Greeks
• Which US Military regiment caught the virus?
  US Navy
• How many lines long is the Elk Cloner poem?
  7
• When was Elk Cloner written?
  1982
• Is a boot sector virus more or less common in modern technology?
  less
• How long did it take Richard to write the program?
  2 Weeks
• Which Operating System was affected?
  Apple II
• What commands were a very big way that allowed Morris to access the computers?
  Berkeley r-commands
• Who was one the first person prosecuted for the computer misuse act?
  Robert Tappan Morris
• What type of attack is a "Fork Bomb"?
  Denial of Service
• When was this worm released?
  1988
• How many computers did it infect within 15 hours?
  2000
• What does rsh mean?
  remote shell
• Under which act was Morris arrested for?
  1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse act
• What was the name of this virus?
  Cascade
• What file extensions would this virus infect?
  .COM
• How many variants of there virus were possibly found?
  40
• What operating system would the virus run on?
  DOS
• Which Operating System/Frame Work would Cascade try to avoid?
  IBM
• How many bytes would be added onto your file if it got infected?
  1704