page_title: List of Pakistani inventions and discoveries
section_title: Computing
hierarchical_section_title: List of Pakistani inventions and discoveries / Post-independence / Computing
caption_attribution_description: English: Details of this photograph include (1) it is the hex dump of the boot sector of a floppy (A:) containing the first ever PC virus, Brain, (2) PC Tools Deluxe 4.22, a file manager and low-level editor, was being used (3) the PC was a 8088 running at 8&#160;MHz and had 640&#160;Kb of RAM (4) the graphics card was a CGA (4 colours at 320×200)
context_section_description: A boot sector computer virus dubbed (c)Brain, one of the first computer viruses in history, was created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
  A Software simulation based on blast forensics designed by Pakistani computer scientist, Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, that can reduce deaths by 12 per cent and injuries by seven per cent on average just by changing the way a crowd of people stand near an expected suicide bomber.
caption: The boot sector of an infected floppy.
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