1970	in Ware's study (publicly released in 1979 [WAR79]) 
 
1981	The earliest case of a virus that succeeded "in the wild"

1982	Virus identification products first developed 

1984	Turing award lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust",
	describes code that can be passed by a compiler (Thompson)

1984	The first U.S. Computer Crime Federal Statute, 18 USC 1030, was enacted.

1986.1	Brain Virus is probably the earliest MS-DOS virus.

1988.8	the first federal suit

1988.9	Burleson be the first one go to jail for malicious code

1988.11	CERT established for against worm

1997.5	above list organized by Kevin for presentation