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How have computer viruses evolved?

Computer Viruses

December, 1987 saw the Jerusalem virus appear at Hebrew University in Israel. It was also a memory resident file infector. It was the first virus that contained a bug that caused it to re-infect already infected programs. Viruses can be stopped by good internet security software and personal firewall software.

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