The First Computer Virus in the World | Brain Virus

The First Computer Virus in the World | The History of the First Computer Virus | Brain Virus

How are you guys Hope you all are fine and taking care of Your Health in this Corona Pandemic But what is the condition of your computer or phone, most of you don't even care about it, rather than using authorized source on web you use unauthorized source for downloading movies and MOD games and this is the biggest reason your computer gets trapped with different kind of malicious software(Malwares) like virus worms malware and Trojans.

But Guys have you ever think which was the first computer virus in the world and who created that virus for what reason so read this full post and know about the first ever virus in the world.

First of all you should know that any program or software that replicate itself and change the ways your computer works is called a Virus and in 1971 a person name Bob Thomas created the first ever virus called Creeper virus which was not a dangerous virus and it only shows a message on a computer screen "I am Creeper Catch me If You Can"

and after creeper virus a 15 year old boy created another virus called Elk Clonner which was made for fun and this virus stops the game play in a computer if it was played more than 50th times.

but these two viruses are not dangerous and does not cause any major serious problems to computer  and are made for texnex OS and apple ii series computer

But in 1986 two brothers in Pakistan named Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi created the first wild virus in the world and this was the first virus for the Microsoft dos Computers and it infected more than 1 lakh computers in just 3 years but this virus does not erase the computers data but it slowed down that infected computer.

These two brothers runs a computer store in Lahore,Pakistan and created a medical related software but their customers does not use their software legally and instead of buying they use pirated software that's why farooq brothers were not gaining any profit from their software so they coded a virus in their software and named it Brain and it was a boot sector virus if anyone use their pirated software illegally the virus become activated at boot time  and show copyright message of the software and phone numbers and address of the farooq brothers.

Basit and Amjad said in one of their interviews that they developed this virus only so that it could stop the piracy of their software but they did not even know that how much this virus make them famous.

They got calls from america and Britain and those people were demanding to remove the brain from their system(computer) But no legal action was taken on this virus but The media expressed great anger at these brothers and people started blocking the number of these brothers due to this virus.

However, even after so many cases of this virus, it did not affect the Buissness of Farooq Brothers.And after this, their business increased so much that Brain Net became the biggest internet service provider of Pakistan.

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