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Brain Virus

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Name:
Brain Virus
Also known as:
Ashar, (C)Brain, Clone, Nipper, Pakistani, PakistaniBrain
Type:
Memory resident stealth boot sector infector
Affects:
PCs
Discovered:
January 1986
Description:
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.
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