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Question: Do you know first antivirus ever was also named as reaper?
Asked by Creeper (182.68.24.x) on November 26 2023, 11:15am
Reply on November 27 2023, 4:00am:

I didn't know that! AV software or a virus that kills other viruses?

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Posted by Creeper (110.227.152.x) on November 27 2023, 8:46am:
A virus which kills other viruses is also technically an antivirus I guess, haha. But yeah, that antivirus software / tool was named as reaper. And it was designed to kill the first ever virus, which was named as 'creeper'.

Posted by Creeper (110.227.152.x) on November 27 2023, 8:47am:
See this : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_and_Reaper
Posted by Justin on November 27 2023, 2:50pm:
based on that, Reaper was also a virus hah?

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