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Friday 3 February 2012

First Computer Virus (Brain, the first virus)


In Pakistan, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi ran a computer store called Brain Computer Services.
They soon discovered that a floppy disk contained computer instructions that were executed when the computer was first turned on. Basit and Amjad used this knowledge for their own purposes and created computer instructions that would change the label of floppy disks in the computer to (C) Brain. The instructions would make a copy of themselves onto other floppy disks that were inserted into the floppy-disk drive.