Multiple choice technology security

The first virus was first detected in this Operating System?

  1. windows 98

  2. windows XP

  3. Apple DOS

  4. mainframes
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AI explanation

The first virus to spread on personal computers, Elk Cloner, targeted Apple II machines running Apple DOS 3.3 back in 1982 — it spread via floppy disks and displayed a short poem after the 50th boot. Windows-based viruses came much later, once IBM-compatible PCs and Windows became dominant, so those options don't fit the historical timeline.

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