History
It first appeared in 1989. The first U.S. specimen was contracted in Dallas, TX, and quarantined with verification given by antivirus professionals. Reporters and TV crews recorded this in the local area news in August 1990. Its trail led from Dallas back to New York via a professional at a software firm creating software for lawyers. Virus firms had been tracking it previously in London a month or two before getting calls from New York. No specimens were quarantined or properly recorded in New York.
Raymond Glath of Phoenix, AZ, was the developer and owner of the Vi-Spy product which continued production until mid-release of Windows 95. Reports to McAfee antivirus and Vi-Spy antivirus firms resulted in only one product properly detecting the virus, Vi-Spy.
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