A museum for old viruses

Not only paintings and works of art, but also a museum for computer viruses, those of an earlier time. The museum was created by the Internet Archive and is an online gallery of some 'malware', operating in the 80s - 90s. They are interactive. If you click on the selected icon of the virus, a simulator shows the effects on our computer. But this is only a game and does not cause any harm. Previous viruses were quite easy and less harmful than today's viruses. Today the problem of security has become far more dangerous, as it is created both a day, February 9, as Safer Internet Day. Arianna and CoffShop from viruses, Internet Archive site has collected 78 examples of viruses 20 years ago. Is a 'walk' in the past, where the virus essentially dealt with by email or a floppy disk into the computer. The idea of ​​creating this archive old is Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's liable. On the page you can choose the old viruses by name, relevance or date of creation. Computer virus that first struck a computer, known as Brain, was in 1986. In 2000, the security software company Sophos estimates that at the time were in circulation at least 50 thousand viruses.