{"id":14414,"date":"2017-12-26T23:16:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/a-virus-on-christmas-4\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T23:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:16:01","slug":"a-virus-on-christmas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/a-virus-on-christmas-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A Virus on Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/christmas-exec.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4110]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/74030__christmas-exec-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-exec\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/74030__christmas-exec-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/christmas-exec.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>December 25, 1987<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_virus\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas virus<\/a>\u00a0begins to effect IBM mainframe computers around the world. Technically defined as a worm, the Christmas virus drew a Christmas tree\u00a0text graphic on the victim\u2019s monitor and searched out other network users. Named CHRISTMA EXEC because IBM systems only supported eight-character filenames, it was\u00a0the world\u2019s first widely disruptive computer worm.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/25\/a-virus-on-christmas\/\">A Virus on Christmas?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/25\/a-virus-on-christmas\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 25, 1987 The\u00a0Christmas virus\u00a0begins to effect IBM mainframe computers around the world. Technically defined as a worm, the Christmas virus drew a Christmas tree\u00a0text graphic on the victim\u2019s monitor and searched out other network users. Named CHRISTMA EXEC because IBM systems only supported eight-character filenames, it was\u00a0the world\u2019s first widely disruptive computer worm. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2983,2995],"class_list":["post-14414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-christmas","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}