Question

computer viruses emerged in the​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Traditional computer viruses emerged in the 1980s, driven by the spread of personal.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Every virus was written purposefully by a human or team of humans (often, using code from other viruses).

People started writing them in the 1980s because:

• That’s when people started having computers in the home, not owned and administered by their school or their employer.

• That’s when DOS came out, which had no access controls and literally let any program do anything it wanted to any part of the computer. (By the way, even when MS finally put access controls into a home OS - Windows XP - the installer still misguided 99% of people into running as an “administrator” user, which meant that they still had no protection. At the same time, the internet became popular - and so viruses were everywhere for like a decade.)