First Computer Virus: How 2 Brothers From Pakistan Created The ‘Brain’


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Basit was 17 years old while Amjad was 24 years old when they created the virus in the 1980s. The siblings were running a computer store in Lahore, Pakistan. During that time, they found out that customers were circulating illegal copies of software they’d written.

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