{"id":30102,"date":"2024-08-29T06:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entri.app\/question-answer\/which-is-considered-as-the-first-ms-dos-personal-computer-virus\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T06:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:19:19","slug":"which-is-considered-as-the-first-ms-dos-personal-computer-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entri.app\/question-answer\/which-is-considered-as-the-first-ms-dos-personal-computer-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is considered as the first MS-DOS personal computer virus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brain<\/strong> is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form in January 1986, and is considered to be the first computer virus for <strong>MS-DOS<\/strong>. Brain affects the IBM PC by <strong>replacing the boot sector<\/strong> 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 <strong>five kilobytes<\/strong> of bad sectors. There are many minor and major variations to that version of the text. The virus slows down the <strong>floppy disk<\/strong> drive and makes <strong>seven kilobytes<\/strong> of memory unavailable to DOS. Brain was written by <strong>Amjad Farooq Alvi<\/strong> and <strong>Basit Farooq Alvi<\/strong>, who at the time lived in <strong>Chah Miran<\/strong>, near <strong>Lahore Railway Station<\/strong>, in <strong>Lahore<\/strong>, <strong>Pakistan<\/strong>. The brothers told TIME magazine they had written it to protect their medical software from piracy, and it was supposed to target copyright infringement only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form in January 1986, and is considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS. 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