In the mid-1980s, when computer malware first emerged, it was very different from how things are today.
For one thing, many people weren’t even sure if computer viruses truly existed or if the stuff of legend – as unlikely to be real as the Loch Ness Monster or the Himalayan Yeti.
As late as 1988, some still believed that the threat was bogus, with the likes of Peter Norton pronouncing that computer viruses were “urban myths, like alligators in the new York sewers”.
Of course, that was no impediment to the very first version of Norton AntiVirus being released two years later.
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