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Brain: Searching for the first PC virus in Pakistan

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  • Presented by Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure

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Mikko Hypponen travels to Pakistan to interview the creators of Brain, the first PC virus from 1986.

A 10-minute video reportage about Mikko Hypponen's trip to Lahore, Pakistan, to find the authors of the first PC virus "Brain". This is the first time Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi have given a video interview about the virus, which spread around the world via floppy disks in 1986.

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u/mikkohypponenin r/netsec • Recommends

Thanks Reddit netsec community! Here's the video. I went to Pakistan, travelled to Lahore and took a taxi to the address found 25 years ago in the boot sector of the first PC virus. I found the address and knocked on the door. The creators of the first PC virus opened it. The end result is now on Youtube Before I left for Lahore, we asked here on Reddit netsec for suggestions on what to ask them and got lots of ideas. We also built a minisite with more information on the project. I used questions from these Redditors - thanks for your help: * sanitybit * Polymathic * quitelikeme * arttuys * Supersimmo * Distance_Runner * watermark0n * unfriendlyfire * bodyglove * Pseudoprogrammer *…
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