SecurityRatty: Is the doctor in?

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Is the doctor in?

2008-04-20 14:54:33 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog

The Virus has grown beyond our ability to remove it safely sir. You computer is toast!
Now turn your head and cough!

clipped from online-radioamateur.org

History of Antivirus software

Peter Tippett made a number of contributions to the budding field of virus detection.[citation needed] He was an emergency room doctor who also ran a computer software company. He had read an article about the Lehigh virus and questioned whether they would have similar characteristics to biological viruses that attack organisms. From an epidemiological viewpoint, he was able to determine how these viruses were affecting systems within the computer (the boot-sector was affected by the Brain virus, the .com files were affected by the Lehigh virus, and both .com and .exe files were affected by the Jerusalem virus). Tippett’s company Certus International Corp. then began to create anti-virus software programs. The company was sold in 1992 to Symantec Corp, and Tippett went to work for them, incorporating the software he had developed into Symantec’s product, Norton AntiVirus.[citation needed]