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Detailed explanation-1: -Brain was written by Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi, who at the time lived in Chah Miran, near Lahore Railway Station, in Lahore, Pakistan. The brothers told Time magazine they had written it to protect their medical software from illegal copying, and it was supposed to target copyright infringement only.

Detailed explanation-2: -Brain was a boot sector virus: after an infected floppy was inserted into a computer, the virus would copy itself onto the computer’s boot sector, its master software, and lodge itself there permanently.

Detailed explanation-3: -These two Pakistani brothers-‘Basit’ and ‘Amjad Farooq Alvi’ invented the first Computer Virus called “Brain". Today they own a company–Brain Computer Services. Islam Monirul and 538 others like this.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Most IBM personal computers ran on MS-DOS and data was stored on 5.25-inch floppy disks, which could store 160 kilobyte of files. It was on one such disk that Amjad had copied the ‘Brain Virus’ or, the Pakistani Brain, which became the first viral computer infestation the world had seen.