Name:
Brain VirusAlso known as:
Ashar, (C)Brain, Clone, Nipper, Pakistani, PakistaniBrainType:
Memory resident stealth boot sector infectorAffects:
PCsDiscovered:
January 1986Description:
The Brain virus is a memory resident stealth boot sector infector that changes the infected disk's volume label to "(c) brain" or "(c) ashar" depending on variant.While no longer in-the-wild, Brain achieved notoriety for being the first known PC virus. It infected boot sectors, hooking into INT13. If the virus were resident in memory, the boot sector would look normal.Vendor Descriptions:
