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world first virus creat by pakistani
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Knew that it was a Pakistani who created the first PC virus but didnt know the details. Now I know.
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I may have met him several years ago !! I am pretty sure..............
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looool - i thought it was taleban !!!! ( just kidding )
and u arte right raw - The first PC virus in the wild was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers, operating out of Lahore, Pakistan,
their idea was not evil :the reason for making the virus was reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
and u arte right raw - The first PC virus in the wild was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers, operating out of Lahore, Pakistan,
their idea was not evil :the reason for making the virus was reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
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So it was first virus or first DOS virus.... because I read somewhere about first DOS virus from alvi brothers and first virus from someone else.
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Well, it was intended to be Ulta but then again.... Pakistani's always come up with Ulta stuff
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what ever u say but again proud to be pakistani b/c india is going very fast in "IT" field but thay not creat it.India is going very fast in "IT" but world record in "IT: is made by pakistani like babar iqbal with four world record like arfa karim...
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Brain (computer virus)
Brain (computer virus) (the industry standard name being Brain) is, in its first incarnation released in September 1986,[1] considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS . It infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT) file system.
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The boot sector of an infected floppy
Description
Description©Brain affects the IBM PC computer by replacing the boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked as bad. Infected disks usually have five kilobytes of bad sectors. The disk label is changed to ©Brain, and the following text can be seen in infected boot sectors:
Welcome to the Dungeon (c) 1986 Brain & Amjads (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....$#@%$@!!
There are many minor and major variations to that version of the text. The virus slows down the floppy disk drive and makes seven kilobytes of memory unavailable to DOS. ©Brain was written by two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who lived in Chahmiran near Lahore Railway Station , Lahore , Pakistan . The brothers told TIME magazine they had written it to protect their medical software from piracy and it was supposed to target copyright infringers only.[2] The cryptic message "Welcome to the Dungeon", appeared after a year because the brothers licensed a beta version of the code, a safeguard and reference to an early programming forum on Dungeon BBS. The brothers could not be contacted to receive the final release of this version of the program. (see Author Response )
©Brain lacks code for dealing with hard disk partitioning , and avoids infecting hard disks by checking the most significant bit of the BIOS drive number being accessed; ©Brain does not infect the disk if the bit is clear, unlike other viruses at the time which paid no attention to disk partitioning and consequentially destroyed data stored on hard disks by treating them in the same way as floppy disks. ©Brain often went undetected partially due to this deliberate non-destructiveness, especially when the user paid little to no attention to the slow speed of floppy disk access.
The virus came complete with the brothers' address and three phone numbers, and a message that told the user that their machine was infected and for inoculation the user should call them:
Welcome to the Dungeon © 1986 Basit * Amjad (pvt) Ltd. BRAIN COMPUTER SERVICES 730 NIZAM BLOCK ALLAMA IQBAL TOWN LAHORE-PAKISTAN PHONE: 430791,443248,280530. Beware of this VIRUS.... Contact us for vaccination...
The reason for this message was the program was originally used to track a heart monitoring program for the IBM PC, and pirates were distributing bad copies of the disks. This tracking program was supposed to stop and track illegal copies of the disk. Another programmer copied the technique for DOS and it became the (c) Brain virus. Unfortunately the program also sometimes used the last 5k on an apple floppy, making additional saves to the disk by other programs impossible. The company was sued for damages and was quickly dissolved.
Author response
Author responseWhen the brothers began to receive a large number of phone calls from people in United States , United Kingdom , and elsewhere, demanding them to disinfect their machines, the brothers were stunned and tried to explain to the outraged callers that their motivation had not been malicious. They ended up having to get their phone lines cut off and regretted that they had revealed their contact info in the first place. The brothers are still in business in Pakistan as Brain NET Internet service providers with a company called Brain Telecommunication Limited.
In 2011, 25 years after Brain was released, Mikko Hyppönen of F-Secure travelled to Pakistan to interview Basit and Amjad for a documentary.
Variants
Ashar is an older version of Brain. There are six variants each with a different message.
Brain (computer virus) (the industry standard name being Brain) is, in its first incarnation released in September 1986,[1] considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS . It infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT) file system.
The boot sector of an infected floppy
Description
Description©Brain affects the IBM PC computer by replacing the boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked as bad. Infected disks usually have five kilobytes of bad sectors. The disk label is changed to ©Brain, and the following text can be seen in infected boot sectors:
Welcome to the Dungeon (c) 1986 Brain & Amjads (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....$#@%$@!!
There are many minor and major variations to that version of the text. The virus slows down the floppy disk drive and makes seven kilobytes of memory unavailable to DOS. ©Brain was written by two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who lived in Chahmiran near Lahore Railway Station , Lahore , Pakistan . The brothers told TIME magazine they had written it to protect their medical software from piracy and it was supposed to target copyright infringers only.[2] The cryptic message "Welcome to the Dungeon", appeared after a year because the brothers licensed a beta version of the code, a safeguard and reference to an early programming forum on Dungeon BBS. The brothers could not be contacted to receive the final release of this version of the program. (see Author Response )
©Brain lacks code for dealing with hard disk partitioning , and avoids infecting hard disks by checking the most significant bit of the BIOS drive number being accessed; ©Brain does not infect the disk if the bit is clear, unlike other viruses at the time which paid no attention to disk partitioning and consequentially destroyed data stored on hard disks by treating them in the same way as floppy disks. ©Brain often went undetected partially due to this deliberate non-destructiveness, especially when the user paid little to no attention to the slow speed of floppy disk access.
The virus came complete with the brothers' address and three phone numbers, and a message that told the user that their machine was infected and for inoculation the user should call them:
Welcome to the Dungeon © 1986 Basit * Amjad (pvt) Ltd. BRAIN COMPUTER SERVICES 730 NIZAM BLOCK ALLAMA IQBAL TOWN LAHORE-PAKISTAN PHONE: 430791,443248,280530. Beware of this VIRUS.... Contact us for vaccination...
The reason for this message was the program was originally used to track a heart monitoring program for the IBM PC, and pirates were distributing bad copies of the disks. This tracking program was supposed to stop and track illegal copies of the disk. Another programmer copied the technique for DOS and it became the (c) Brain virus. Unfortunately the program also sometimes used the last 5k on an apple floppy, making additional saves to the disk by other programs impossible. The company was sued for damages and was quickly dissolved.
Author response
Author responseWhen the brothers began to receive a large number of phone calls from people in United States , United Kingdom , and elsewhere, demanding them to disinfect their machines, the brothers were stunned and tried to explain to the outraged callers that their motivation had not been malicious. They ended up having to get their phone lines cut off and regretted that they had revealed their contact info in the first place. The brothers are still in business in Pakistan as Brain NET Internet service providers with a company called Brain Telecommunication Limited.
In 2011, 25 years after Brain was released, Mikko Hyppönen of F-Secure travelled to Pakistan to interview Basit and Amjad for a documentary.
Variants
Ashar is an older version of Brain. There are six variants each with a different message.
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'The Creeper virus was first detected on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, in the early 1970s. Creeper was an experimental self-replicating program written by Bob Thomas at BBN Technologies in 1971.'
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What do you think we Pakistani Are ( Proud to be a Pakistani)
Virus is almost equall to a terrorist.....
