![]() A look under the hood, however, revealed it was not so pretty. He imagined something wondrous – self-reproducing computer programs should be elegant, fruits of some esoteric black art. When he analysed Vienna, Bontchev was disappointed. Bontchev eventually figured out that he had resurrected the virus commonly known as Vienna. He took it home and entered it – byte by byte – into his computer, careful not to make any mistakes. He found a printout of the virus’s code in the garbage. Bontchev raced to their place of business looking for any remnants. Horror turned to panic when the men told him that they had purged the virus from their firm’s computers as well. The laptop had a virus on it, and when they ran their antivirus program, the virus disappeared.īontchev was both fascinated and horrified: fascinated because he had never seen a virus before (or a laptop, for that matter), horrified because the men had just killed it. The men not only reported that they had a virus they also claimed to have written an antivirus program that eliminated it. They had read the articles about these strange new creatures in the magazine and wanted to show Bontchev the virus they had discovered in their small software company. He was very surprised when two men walked into Computer for You’s office, where he used to hang out, and claimed to have a virus. When Bontchev wrote this dismissive article, he had not yet seen a virus. ![]() Moreover, most users in Bulgaria did not have their own personal computers they shared them. ![]() He had not appreciated that what may be an obvious virus to him may not be obvious to the secretary using a computer as a typewriter. It was hard to miss a virus! Prevention through basic cyber hygiene was simple: “Do not allow other people to use your computer do not use suspicious software products do not use software products acquired illegally.”īontchev would come to regret this article. They do strange things, such as play tunes, draw Christmas trees on the screen and reboot computers. Infected files are bigger than uninfected files. Any competent programmer, Bontchev claimed, could tell when files are corrupted by a virus.
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