If you answered 'True' you would be correct. Back in 1982, a 9th grade kid (15 years old at the time) by the name of Rich Skrenta (photo shown below) unintentionally created the first widespread computer virus. The computer virus, later coined the name 'Elk Cloner', actively spread "in-the-wild" and targeted Apple computers. In contrast, the first Microsoft virus (Brain) wasn't seen until 1986.
According to the site Wikipedia, Skrenta was already infamous amongst his friends for playing around with floppy disks and rigging them to shut down machines or fixing them to display taunting messages. This led many of them to refuse disks given to them by Skrenta which in turn led him to develop code that could self-replicate and spread to machines on its own. Elk Croner was born, though it was initially created as a joke and was only meant to be part of a game. Skrenta had absolutely no clue that his creation would reach such fame. The virus spread via floppy disks, which were very popular at the time, and attached itself to Apple 3.3 operating systems.
The Elk Cloner virus was the first virus in history that affected a machine during its boot-up process. Today, the popular term for such viruses is ‘boot sector virus’. The virus affected the boot sector of infected Apple machines by attaching itself to an innocent looking game. Every 50th time that the machine would boot up, a blank screen and a poem would flash on the screen.
When a machine booted from an infected floppy disk, the virus would enter its memory. But when an uninfected floppy disk was inserted into a compromised machine, the virus would get transferred to that disk. Apart from this transfer, no other serious harm was known to have been caused by the Elk Cloner virus. And while the virus bears very little resemblance to the malicious data stealing programs of today, it is a case in point that Macs aren't completely invincible as most MAC users claim...in fact you can say, they started it all.
So how about today's threats, are there known MAC malware? This answer may surprise you as well.
http://www.thirtyseven4.com/macfaq.html
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