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January 19

First PC Virus: Brain Infiltrates Digital World

The Farooq Alvi brothers unleashed (c)Brain from their Lahore workshop to stop friends from pirating their medical software, accidentally birthing the first IBM PC virus. This act forced the global computing industry to confront digital security as a permanent reality rather than a theoretical risk.

January 19, 1986

40 years ago

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