Blekko was launched publicly on November 1, 2010.Ī virus by the name if nVIR was released and spread via floppy disks. Rich has gone on to create the start-up Blekko, a search engine that claims to offer better search results than Google. The virus would infect the boot sector of an Apple II and on every 50th boot would display:Įlk Cloner: The program with a personality Fortunately the history of Mac viruses is short, the list for Windows viruses would be quite lengthy.Ī 15 year old by the name of Rich Skrenta wrote the first virus for the Apple II called the Elk Cloner virus. To follow up on why you might need an anti-virus client on your Mac, Sophos' Naked Security Blog compiled a history of viruses targeted at Apple computers.
That doesn't mean that there aren't viruses on a Mac as Apple might suggest in their Mac vs.
Yesterday we wrote about why it might be a good idea to use anti-virus on your Mac it helps prevent the spread of viruses to Windows computers.
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