Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

Dossier: It’s a stretch to describe Jan de Wit even as a coder. A script kiddie in every sense of the word, the Dutchman used a virus-creation toolkit to compile a worm written in Microsoft VBS ...