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TIL: Kimberly Vanvaeck, otherwise known as Gigabyte, wrote the first C# virus along with several other viruses after a long standing dispute with Graham Cluley who worked for an internet security firm. The dispute was due to Cluley making several comments about the gender of virus writers.

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