P.C. Virus turns 25 today!

Feuer Frei! · 01-19-11, 10:23 PM

TWENTY-FIVE years ago today, two brothers in Pakistan came up with a new and novel way to catch out software pirates.

As it turned out, they also gave birth to one of the greatest annoyances in the modern world.
"Brain", considered to be the first major personal computer virus, was created on January 19, 1986, by Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi at their computer shop in Lahore, Pakistan.
From there the program spread across the world — one infected floppy disk at a time.
At its peak Brain had even reached the offices of a government department in Canada, on the other side of the globe.
To this day there is speculation as to why Basit and Amjad created the virus. It appears to have been a way to stop software pirates.
"(Amjat) wanted a way to detect piracy, to catch someone who copies," Basit told TIME in 1988. His brother had written several custom software programs which were being copied without permission.

Entire article here

Penguin · 01-20-11, 04:36 PM

happy birthday!

Wolfehunter · 01-20-11, 05:13 PM

happy birthday viruses.. hehehe..

I infected once a college by accident. I borrowed one of my cousins floppies. Damn sneaky little bastard Virus. Took a week for the entire school to go nuts... There entire computer network shut down.. till they had to clean one system at a time... Ahhh the glory days... Delayed one of my exams.. hahaa..

No one knew... hahaaa...

I didn't even realize it was me till someone showed me the virus name.. I knew the name because I dealt with that virus few weeks before in my own rig thanks to borrowing a disk. took me a long time to scan all my 500plus floppies. My family is slow when it comes to viruses or any computer issue.. I'm always fixing there ****ups.

Oh well **** happens...

01-19-11, 10:23 PM	#1
Feuer Frei! Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Valhalla Posts: 5,295 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 17	P.C. Virus turns 25 today! TWENTY-FIVE years ago today, two brothers in Pakistan came up with a new and novel way to catch out software pirates. As it turned out, they also gave birth to one of the greatest annoyances in the modern world. "Brain", considered to be the first major personal computer virus, was created on January 19, 1986, by Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi at their computer shop in Lahore, Pakistan. From there the program spread across the world — one infected floppy disk at a time. At its peak Brain had even reached the offices of a government department in Canada, on the other side of the globe. To this day there is speculation as to why Basit and Amjad created the virus. It appears to have been a way to stop software pirates. "(Amjat) wanted a way to detect piracy, to catch someone who copies," Basit told TIME in 1988. His brother had written several custom software programs which were being copied without permission. Entire article here __________________ "History is the lies that the victors agree on"- Napoleon LINK TO MY SH 3 MODS

01-20-11, 05:13 PM	#3
Wolfehunter Crusty Capt. Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,752 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 25	happy birthday viruses.. hehehe.. I infected once a college by accident. I borrowed one of my cousins floppies. Damn sneaky little bastard Virus. Took a week for the entire school to go nuts... There entire computer network shut down.. till they had to clean one system at a time... Ahhh the glory days... Delayed one of my exams.. hahaa.. No one knew... hahaaa... I didn't even realize it was me till someone showed me the virus name.. I knew the name because I dealt with that virus few weeks before in my own rig thanks to borrowing a disk. took me a long time to scan all my 500plus floppies. My family is slow when it comes to viruses or any computer issue.. I'm always fixing there **ups. Oh well ** happens... __________________

01-20-11, 04:36 PM	#2
Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	happy birthday!