Where do viruses come from? Despite the fact that people are the creators of these parasites, viruses seem to take on a life of their own once they are released into the computer world. Who ever thought that a program with about 50 lines of code would be so damaging that it would bring an entire nation's Internet connections to a standstill?
The following page is the most extensive virus history site I
have found. Thanks to Robert Slade for maintaining this site:
http://dbweb.agora.stm.it/webforum/virus/sladehis.htm
This page from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
contains a comprehensive history of viruses:
http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/nistir/threats/subsubsection3_3_1_1.html