Thursday, October 1, 2009

What is the FIRST antivirus in the history?

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What is the FIRST antivirus in the history?microsoft



There are competing claims for the innovator of the first antivirus product. Perhaps the first publicly known neutralization of a wild PC virus was performed by European Bernt Fix (also Bernd) in early 1987. Fix neutralized an infection of the Vienna virus.[5] [6] First edition of Polish antivirus software mks_vir started in 1987. Program was only available in Polish language version. Fall 1988 also saw antivirus software Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit released by Briton Alan Solomon. By December 1990 the market had matured to the point of nineteen separate antivirus products being on sale including Norton AntiVirus and ViruScan from McAfee.



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鈥檚 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鈥檚 product, Norton AntiVirus.[citation needed]



A very uncommon use of the term "antivirus" is to apply it to benign viruses that spread and combated malicious viruses. This was common on the Amiga computer platform.[citation needed]



What is the FIRST antivirus in the history?norton ghost



I believe its Symantec's Norton Antivirus.
I think Norton from Symantec.

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