Comp-virus turns twenty

BBC NEWS: "The virus was discovered in January 1986 but may have been written some time before that as it used a relatively slow method to travel.

Brain was known as a "boot-sector" virus because of the area on a floppy disk it hid on. By concealing itself in this region, the virus could ensure that it would be installed every time that floppy disk was used on another computer. The Brain virus is now extinct."


"The most significant change has been the evolution of virus writing hobbyists into criminally operated gangs bent on financial gain."
Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure