What was the name of the first computer Virus and Who maid it?

Did you knew that thier is a human has successfully infected himself with a computer virus — The name of this man, Scientist Mark Gasson.

A computer virus is an executable program. Depend on the nature of a virus, it may cause damage of your hard disk contents, and/or interfere normal operation of your computer.

By definition, a virus program is able to replicate itself. This means that the virus multiplies on a computer by making copies of itself. This replication is intentional; it is part of the virus program. In most cases, if a file that contains virus is executed or copied onto another computer, then that computer will also be "infected" by the same virus.

A virus can be introduced to a computer system along with any software program. For Internet users, this threat can come from downloading files through FTP (file transfer protocol), or referencing email attachments.

Here is the Answer:

Elk Cloner — is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread "in the wild," i.e., outside the computer system or lab in which it was written. It was written around 1982 by a 15-year-old high school student named Richard "Rich" Skrenta for Apple II systems.

The virus infected thousands of machines, but was harmless: It merely displayed a poem across the user's screen.

Rich Skrenta is a computer programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who created the search engine blekko.

Here the display into an infected computer — short poem on every 50th boot:

Sources: ust.hk, wikipedia.org, forbes.com