The world’s first PC virus(brain virus) completed 30 years, this year(2016). This virus was developed by Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi who were from Lahore. The brain virus released in January 1986. This virus works in DOS(Operating System). The FAT file system follows floppy disk. The virus is not that much harmful. The funniest thing is, the virus have the phone numbers of the developers.
Brain virus does, they change the boot sector of floppy disk and fix it’s own copy. The generation of brain virus are very difficult to apply, because the OS are load from the floppy disks. When the virus affects the system, the label of the disk will change to ©brain. The affected boot sector will show a message as follows:
Welcome to the Dungeon(c) 1986 Basie & Amends(pvt) Ltd VIRUS_SHOE RECORD V9.0 Dedicated to the dynamic memories of millions of viruses who are no longer with us today – Thanks GOODNESS!! BEWARE OF THE er..VIRUS: this program is catching program follows after these messages…$#@%$@!!
Brain virus will make the DOS very slow and 7 kilobytes of memory will be missed because of this brain virus. Alvi brothers told in an interview with time magazines, they developed this virus for stop the illegal copyrights of their software’s. Anyhow the invention of brain virus helped to analyse and think about the security issues that may occur in computer programming.
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