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jul 29, 1986 - Brain Boot Sector

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Two programmers from Pakistan found a way to replace the executable code found in the boot sector of a floppy disk. It became known as the "Brain" "Brain boot sector" and even the Pakistani flu as well as being the first IBM PC virus.

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jul 29, 1986
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