Nor has Microsoft ever sold antivirus program. Microsoft has not created any virus (not as far as I know). In the era of dial-up internet, such passwords were needed to get online, and de Guzman says he could not afford to pay for one. He admitted having created Love Bug, which he said was a revamped version of an earlier virus he had coded in order to steal internet access passwords. Why did Onel de Guzman create the I Love You virus? As Securelist reports, it was the work of two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who ran a computer store in Pakistan.
The Brain Boot Sector Virus Brain, the first PC virus, began infecting 5.2″ floppy disks in 1986. The creator of one of the world’s first global computer viruses says he regrets his creation. Where is the I Love You virus creator now?Ĭreator of the ‘Love Bug’, one of the world’s first global computer viruses that affected 45 million, now works in a phone repair shop in the Philippines and says he regrets unleashing the malignant files in 2000.
Known simply as “Brain,” it was written by two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were only 17 and 24 years old at the time. In January of 1986, the first virus written for Windows based PCs was born.
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