<P> Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread `` in the wild '' , i.e. , outside the computer system or laboratory in which it was written . It attached itself to the Apple II operating system and spread by floppy disk . It was written around 1982 by programmer and entrepreneur Rich Skrenta as a 15 - year - old high school student , originally as a joke , and put onto a game disk . </P>
<P> Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread `` in the wild '' , i.e. , outside the computer system or laboratory in which it was written . It attached itself to the Apple II operating system and spread by floppy disk . It was written around 1982 by programmer and entrepreneur Rich Skrenta as a 15 - year - old high school student , originally as a joke , and put onto a game disk . </P>
who wrote the first computer virus called elk cloner
who wrote the first computer virus called elk cloner
Rich Skrenta
Rich Skrenta