Chapter 18
Twenty-Five (or Forty) Years of Malware History*
Robert M. Slade
As 1986 dawned, computer users around the world were unaware that life, as they knew it, would never be the same. Within weeks, the Brain computer virus would be unleashed upon an unsuspecting planet, and the computing world would never be the same again!
Well, not quite.
Brain [or BRAIN or (c)BRAIN] was probably written and released some time before 1986. It did become widespread, and well-known, and was likely the first virus written for the MS-DOS platform, but it was ...
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