On the defensive
Brain, the first PC virus, which appeared 20 years ago, is very different from today?s batch of viruses and worms.
Like many of the first-generation viruses that appeared, it was generally seen as just a nuisance.
Its creators, two Pakistani brothers, used the program as a piece of true viral marketing, advertising their company, Brain Computer Services of Lahore, Pakistan, by flashing the message: ?Beware of this VIRUS... Contact us for vaccination,? on the screen of infected machines.
In these harsher times, attacks are seen more as critical threats, with the power to cause major disruption to companies? operations and the ability to cause victims to lose millions upon millions of dollars.
