The Brain Boot Sector Virus
Brain was the first PC virus and infected 5.2" floppy disks in 1986.
Two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, were tired of customers making illegal copies of their software, so they developed a virus that replaced the boot sector of a floppy disk. This was the first stealth virus and contained a hidden copyright message. It did not corrupt data.
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