Historians are still debating on the actual birth date of the first computer virus, and many of them would dare to place the first malware applications in the mid-1970 timeframe.Three computer models have been surely infected by malware in mid-70s: Univax 1108 and IBM 360/370.
However, theoretical approaches to self-reproducing mathematical automata are estimated to have started in early 1950s. John von Neumann (December 28, 1903
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