COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS A COMPUTER VIRUS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Brain
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Hack MS-DOS
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Dungeon
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Directory virus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brain, the first virus for PC (with MS-DOS being the operating system) was written in January 1986. The virus infected the boot sector of floppy disks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Brain, the first PC virus, began infecting 5.2” floppy disks in 1986. As Securelist reports, it was the work of two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who ran a computer store in Pakistan.
Detailed explanation-3: -The brain is the industrial standard name of the first computer virus for MS-DOS and was released in 1986. It would overwrite the boot sector on the floppy disk and prevent the computer from booting. It was written by two brothers from Pakistan and was originally designed as copy protection.
Detailed explanation-4: -Creeper was a worm-a type of computer virus that replicates itself and spreads to other systems. In this case, its targets were Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computers which were linked to ARPANET.
Detailed explanation-5: -Screenshot of the boot sector of a floppy disc infected by the Brain boot sector virus. . The virus which was not destructive, was spread by floppy disk.