In 1971, a message popped up on a screen: “I’m the creeper, catch me if you can!” A nod to Scooby Doo, the first virus was called the Creeper. Also, thanks to time flying like the wind, it’s been four ...

It is the 40th Birthday of the world’s first computer virus. In the 1950s genius mathematician John Von Neumann in the early 50s worked out that it was possible to create a self replicating piece of ...