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They released their first antivirus called Anti-Virus Kit (AVK) in 1987.

It was founded by Kai Figge and Andreas Luning. This software was McAfee VirusScan, the world’s first antivirus program. After some time, he decided to automate the virus detection and removal process by making a software. So, he started travelling around the country and fixing computer problems. John knew how to remove this virus but most people didn’t.

John McAfee’s PC was one of the computers infected with the “Brain” virus, which was released by two Pakistani brothers in 1986. John McAfee is the considered as the inventor of the computer Antivirus software. McAfee released their first antivirus product called VirusScan in 1987. McAfee was founded by John McAfee in 1987 as McAfee Associates. A Short History of the First Antivirus Software, Antivirus Companies, and the Antivirus Industry. The first removal of an “in-the-wild” computer virus called Vienna Virus was done by a German security expert Bernd Fix in 1987. The Creeper and the Reaper are considered to be the first virus and antivirus respectively.įast forward to 1987, when the things really started happening in the Antivirus industry. The Reaper moved across the ARPANET network, detected and removed the self-replicating Creeper program.

To remove the Creeper from the network, Ray Tomlinson wrote another program called the Reaper. The same year, another computer scientist named Ray Tomlinson, who was also the co-worker of Bob Thomas, wrote a new version of the Creeper, which replicated itself as it moved across the network instead of just moving. The Creeper program moved across the Digital Equipment Corporation’s PDP-10 mainframe computers, which were running the TENEX operating system, and used the ARPANET network, which was a predecessor of the Internet.

The first virus and antivirus were created in an isolated environment. In 1971, a computer scientist named Bob Thomas created an experimental program called the Creeper at the BBN Technologies, USA. The Invented the Antivirus? The History and Timeline of the Evolution of Antivirus software for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.