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Brain, the first PC Virus turns 30 today

  • January 19, 2016
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January 19, 2016  By Hemant Saxena
 
The transfer process of virus is much sophisticated today. Earlier, it was pretty simple! Business people who traveled the world with floppy disks in their briefcases could infect the computers on which they used the disks. BRAIN was the first such virus to be made. It exploited a security issue in MS-DOS, the OS prior to the advent of Windows, by replacing the boot sector of the disk with the virus and renaming it with the name ©BRAIN. All subsequent disks placed in the drive would then be infected.
 
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