Computer crime started as early as the 1960’s. One form of a computer crime is phreaking. Phreaking consisted of using a telephone to make long distance phone calls for free. A guy named John Draper discovered this and called it phone phreaking. He went by the alias Cap’n Crunch, because he found out that the whistles in Cap’n Crunch cereal made a 2600 hertz tone. When you blew into the phone with whistle it …showed first 75 words of 485 total…

…showed last 75 words of 485 total…viruses have the same characteristics. They are spread by shared disks, or over modems. The virus can be activated by a date or time or command. Viruses are very difficult to trace their place of origin. They are self-duplicating and they are specific to one kind of computer or OS. A OS is an Operating System. The main frame that the computer runs. Windows and MacOS are two popular types of OS’s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**