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  PC virus celebrates 20th birthday
Time: 01:03 EST/06:03 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Chris Hedlund

January 19th is the 20th anniversary for the appearance of the first PC virus. Brain, a boot sector virus, was let loose in January 1986. Brain spread via infected floppy disks and was a relatively innocuous nuisance in contrast with modern Trojan, rootkits and other malware. The appearance of the first Windows malware nonetheless set in train a chain of events that led up to today's computer virus landscape.

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