Brain: Searching for the first PC virus in Pakistan

[@WithSecure]

NEW VIDEO! Top 5 Viruses of All Time by Security Expert Mikko Hyppönen kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHvdhJivh6msgaM

[@jonathanwiggs637]

And yes of course

[@hollyhockbaby1216]

Dïrtŷ

[@basitfarooqalvi2231]

Top video - thanks!

[@aounabbas4687]

Are u real Basit Farooq Alvi? real account?

[@geekybasilempire6874]

I'm from Kashmir that India illegally occupied and I love Pakistan

[@anik6393]

Are u real

[@Alihassan-lw7cg]

Proud of you

[@abhisrecitation949]

@@geekybasilempire6874 So, u ar a pakistan lover, rather than becoming and Indian!!

[@dawarmalik271]

proud to be a member of brain's family....

[@Muhammad_Waleed]

Brain Allama Iqbal Town ma Kahan pr ha ma bhi idhar hi rahta hun😁

[@sardarparacha]

jgr khud b banao kuch

[@Visionary20248]

I appreciate the man who searched and reached the roots of brain to appreciate inventors and for his curiosity

[@faisalnaseemsyed]

I am currently sitting with a member of Brain's network Mr Raza Ahmad aka Raziiii... What a proud moment for Pakistan and specially Allama Iqbal Town's vicinity! Big cheer to us Pakistanis!

[@wondertraveller9928]

So making virus to harm innocent people is what u consider pride?

[@shamayalramay5657]

@@maheshmestry5371 if they did not make it , then someone else had tried. and also there intentions were not anything bad. Based on their inventions millions are now getting jobs in anti virus industry. Hackers used their idea for their own gains.

[@princessbinas]

The most heartwarming tale about a benign computer virus. I feel weird for saying that and being happy that BRAIN went home.

[@raseruuu3742]

Brain-chan okaeri! Tadaima Pakistan-kun.

[@rchobby8917]

Great work, I am from Pakistan, It was in my knowledge that the first virus was invented in Pakistan, but actually I dont know about author, this is first time have come to know about the author of "brain", this is because of you, And you travelled to Pakistan to meet Alvi brothers, this is really amazing,.

[@chetanraikwar3546]

Such an emotional moment when the interviewer handed over the "brained" floppy to the creators. I can understand the emotions of seeing something they made, after decades. It's like getting a lost child back.

[@shahfibre]

Agreed

[@technicalmachine1671]

And he has nothing to read it with

[@ibrahimdevx]

Yess

[@chetanraikwar3546]

@@technicalmachine1671 some retro PCs still come with floppy drives

[@Hulliepap]

@@chetanraikwar3546 you can just buy an external usb floppy reader

[@NewFriiiikan]

I just love it how they gaze at the floopy, blushing and with pride. Such a great history check for all of us IT nuts.

[@yam83]

+whocares It's not often that you can hold a piece of (personal) history in your hands.

[@NewFriiiikan]

Yairo Martis Yes considering how IT grows per year you could de facto be a relic in 5 years.

[@sskhaliq]

Extraordinary indeed. Kudos to this video's host and F-secure for presenting this objectively. .

[@martijnm71]

Thanks for Darknet Diaries for sending me here, awesome to see this piece of history.

[@revealeddarkness]

Im a programmer too so these two men are great personalities for me!!!

[@a7i_.]

are u still alive?

[@tocaizo]

hello!

[@DevelopingPak]

wow - at least there is something that we have invented !

[@hamzazaman18]

Pakistan Defence Official your'e absolutely right bro!!!

[@omgsam7185]

boy, would you be surprised

[@mmm-vf9eb]

Pakistan invents this type of things only apakistani scientist recently invented chip which can be use to control human mind you should build something progressive which helps society.

[@muhammadrameez1907]

Pakistan Defence we have invented many things. First chip that can be connected to brain cells was invented in Pakistan. And there are many other inventions. You can see yourself.

[@idkikr7652]

@@Shubham_Sharma_Official unlike you Indians we aren't called as "tech scammer".

[@mohammadchoudhry1268]

Heartiest congratulations to BRAIN/ALVI GROUP for advancement in Computer World. I feel proud of these my Pakistani brothers. I pray for the safety and security of this group as risks of threat etc. foreseen by the foreign interviewer. My emotions are uncontrollable I again congratulate them. Mohammad Ashiq Choudhry, Haroonabad, Punjab, Pakistan

[@malwaretestingfan]

I'm genuinely happy that the authors are now successful businessmen, so Mikko could eventually interview them. Brain wasn't developed to do harm.

[@hammadmunawar]

8:14 "I brought the virus home" , brought tears to my eyes

[@eriksonyw]

I can't believe a video like this would have under a million views after all these years and yet YT has never recommended it to me, not even once. Its McAfee's "suicide" that brought me here...

[@vpkar13]

This is actually an extremely well done video. Great camera work!

[@naota3k]

Well that's exactly the video I wanted to see. Thanks, Mikko.

[@navneet7075]

Well-done...from India..

[@abeldkap6338]

Fuck you

[@pubgmobilewarriors777]

Abeld Kap stfu

[@Abh2122]

@@abeldkap6338 your opinion doesnt matter

[@dannyems]

Awesome job on the video guys! Very well put together.

[@alifunterz]

Thanks Mr. Mikko Hyppönen, for coming into our country and interviewed our renowned diamonds. Unfortunately, They never interviewed or speak (by video) before for this matter, Neither the Government of Pakistan has given them any award for this great work and Besides, Lots of people in our country even don't know that They made the First Computer Virus.

[@Zain0_0]

Computer virus is not achievement. They should be punished instead lol

[@alifunterz]

@@Zain0_0 Ok so, You think that Making Nuclear Bomb & Other New Technology Weapons are the achievements for Pakistan?

[@riddhirahman]

​@@Zain0_0 they were the first bro it's obviously a huge achievement

[@manmeetvirdi]

Wow, good to know that our neighbors has created it. This virus has virtually led to a start up of a company called McAfee. Good work.

[@sauceontoes3457]

Pakistan: creates virus India: hello your computer has virus

[@TRAGIC31]

Best one so far👍🤣🤣

[@KeiEnd]

I just finished this part from Mikko latest book and it's great to look at the video he mention in the book regarding meeting the author

[@fazalashfaq]

Thank you Mikko for sharing this!

[@Ms9man]

Thank you for bringing it back home.

[@RohanMathur]

I love this interview. Its great for people who are interested in technology, like me.

[@sabanisar2523]

you can't tell how happy i am to rn to know this , that smile on thier faces though :) #CSstudent #ProudPakistani

[@syedhaniraza]

Pakistanis were way ahead of the world even in Viruses. Such a talented nation. Pure geniuses.

[@Avicerox]

@@carl-erikkopseng3403 What

[@swissthun60]

Awesome historical perspective..., Thank you for making it... JD

[@hesayith]

This is incredibly, beautifully shot and edited. Incredible work.

[@SafwanAhmad]

Nice Video. I Live in the neighborhood of Brain, nice to see them in a video.

[@UntoldSecrets1]

I’m so surprised to see these guys they are super simple and straightforward no wickedness is seen from their faces and talking way. Hope they are like that. Wish them success and so it takes part to success of our country.

[@IbteeDApunisher]

OMG this was so amazing. I got goosebumps. I live in the same city Lahore in Pakistan. :)

[@Muhammad_Waleed]

The more amazing thing is I live in the same area which is Allama Iqbal Town. 😎😎😎

[@barkatalibandeali3235]

Pakistanis are great subject to given Opportunities

[@ahmedsiddique863]

correction: subjected to revenge and pressure

[@zoeskye]

Had to come here after hearing Mikko talk on darknet diaries - Such an awesome idea to come up with, its so interesting to meet the people behind Brain

[@drowningin]

It can be really cool to see software you wrote a long time ago. I found a website that had all this old software saved, and I found a program I wrote in the early 90s in Jr high. Was a pain to get it running, but I finally did

[@mohammedhassan2808]

Dear Mikko Hypponen's, You did a great work by reaching them and bring their views to us, and we can able to see and feel such great inventor. I never seen their picture or video earlier. Great work by introducing such inventor to us

[@Noobegai]

the two brothers are seem like pretty nice people for the 2 who wrote the first ever PC virus

[@talhayousaf3918]

The video was very well shot and edited according to the standards of 2011 !

[@sharpenednoodles]

Just came from the Mikko Dark Net Diaries episode - love your work!

[@FrobergDK]

Nice one Mikko, thanks for sharing.

[@Cornerdweler]

wow this is cool. Such Pioneers

[@bitmaster-i3g]

Brilliant storytelling and camera work.

[@Loneeeey]

You should have asked "what software did you use in creating this virus in 1986" ... would have yielded an interesting response.

[@Loneeeey]

I mean, how did they analyze what the OS is doing.. there were no tools. It mustve been a feat.

[@muhammadhassankiyani8953]

@@Loneeeey Assembly language.

[@submeyar]

One of The Best Balanced Video. Its Very Very Balance NO Bias. Thanks

[@yucketico]

With my first PC CPU 8088, I noticed with one of my diskettes 5 1/4 in the label with use Dir/w on MsDos, the label say "Brain (c)", I don't remember the tool, I have been exploring the boot disk sector 0, and see the code in ASCII and Hexadecimal, thus the next step was copy and applied reverse engineering with Debug program from MsDos. :) and see the code in assembly language, now where, I got it, I don't remember somebody give me it free (with a game or program) how know :)

[@kavitaaggarwal547]

Thanks F-Secure, for sharing this video on web. Wonderful piece of knowledge it is. Great to know that our dearest neighbours have actually invented it.

[@mabubakar8614]

Dearest neighbours really?..🤔😅😅😅

[@ahmedmasu]

Their office is just walking distance from my home and I always thought that it is some ISP office but woooo they are genius right near my door .... I'm computer scientist and surely going to meet these people tomorrow or sooner ..

[@Abzalicomedy]

Interesting. Videography was amazing!!!

[@NawazSharif-iy2fw]

damn i am feeling so proud as pakistan greatest inventions of all times

[@SHUBHAMGUPTA-br2jx]

Who came here after darknet dairies ?

[@BobbyBike]

Exactly! I was searching for such comment, would write my own of not for yours :)

[@danieldouglass1667]

Yup haha

[@antarikshasharma]

Wow what an Informative, Amazing yet Under rated Video

[@weirdsoul8757]

That floppy disk at end looks soo suspicious.

[@jalaluddinisa]

This is brilliant. Right after I found out the first pc virus was made by a Pakistani, I started researching it. Crazy stuff, but proud of them :D

[@AlterIGP]

Legendary!

[@waseemarfi]

Nice to see the report ... feeling proud

[@landwarrior348]

@rash9876 I think we Pakistanis r not proud from the fact that PC virus was invented in Pakistan but to the fact that we had and have smart brains in our country. Every country has things to be proud of. We also respect the fact that India is doing wonders in IT industry. Gentlemen in video did explained that they did not have bad intentions thats y they left their contact details on it. Peace man and go do ur home work.

[@syedhaniraza]

shut up. I am proud of. It is a benign virus. And we opened the door of this whole computer and network security. so stfu..

[@DaPakiGuy]

Proud to be a Pakistani....

[@DonFleming-v2u]

I still remember reading about it some time in 87 or 88 while doing my first year engg. Computer Studies was not named IT then, it was hardware or software. No audio or videos (later called multimedia) in computers. Color graphics was tare and expensive. Storage was called Winchester later came hard drives very expensive and 3" floppies. Software was Basic, COBOL, Fortran , wordstar, lotus dBase etc

[@fawadalam4327]

Proud to be Pakistani and proud on Alvi Bros

[@PhilCrombieMTB]

Great video, saw this form DarkNet Diaries.

[@basitizm]

They were really Intelligent and bold enough to give interview because the Virus was not destructive.

[@Altafhussain-kp2qc]

you are grate you come Pakistan and meet these people and explore brain good job

[@merelogics]

awesome... I think FSecure forgot to thank them for making that virus :D

[@aounabbas4687]

can u reply after 8 years ...please

[@aimohsin1380]

Lol

[@taliesinmusic]

Brilliant video!

[@Mproductionstudios]

@mechavas well it kinda is, i m surprised that its not in the Guinness book of world records cause it deserves to be in it

[@abdursabooralisaad2400]

unable to understand reason for "evil music" background music while during interview

[@OfficialAbass]

lol it doesnt sound evil to me. Its probably music from pakistan.

[@aleena2174]

@@OfficialAbass no dear you're wrong it does not from Pakistan

[@arslan70]

wow this is pretty moving. It's kind of standing over a huge fortress of a fallen empire and admiring how great they were.

[@SajidKiani1]

You have done very good work. thanks for this information.

[@filmzone46]

insane story.Thanks for letting me know.

[@umarghaffarmusic]

Pakistan Zindabad ❤️

[@timogoosen]

You have a point. I would like to see someone interview some of the members of the group, which is no longer together today:29A

[@moosazstudio]

Very Nice information Sir. Thanks a lot

[@dayfree2485]

That was nice. Watching this in 2022.

[@notauthorme4943]

Wow proud to have brains in Pakistan like that

[@raoabdullah1905]

Thanks for the informative short story.

[@RubyPaki]

he is absolutely right, because the same story you can find on Wikipedia

[@lin2k4]

Awesome video! Do you know how old the authors were when they wrote the virus?

[@syedhaniraza]

19

[@MatrixOfDynamism]

why such few views? I mean seriously.

[@furqi826]

Hi there, My name is Furquan Hassan. I am 16 years old and I am the worlds youngest certified in Information System Security Officer. I want to say that pakistan was and is the most advance nation in Information Security and other related technologies. But we don't see any platform to show our self except moving to an other country, my cousin gave a solution to DPA attacks in devices,he is now in US earning 400,000 a month. in-short one day the things will change and pakistan will be a leader.

[@Incognit0777]

During the video I was thinking: "Well, somebody would have created any type of computer virus, especially a malicious one, even if those two innocent men hadn't invented the so-called 'Brain'."

[@TalhaFazlani]

Excellent, great documentary.

[@MmAaZzzz]

thank you very much

[@fnccom]

I know back in time brain computers i visted their office many time. They were developing softwares also selling pc and having good team like Faisal Alvi as well a good programmer. Means most of their family members are in this field. Nice work still remember their project in urdu bazar lahore was to introduce softwares for publishing also. So good so nice peoples.

[@abdul9525]

Annoying background music

[@chad362wiley]

Please make more videos!

[@prakharkandpal5657]

great..video..

[@Mageroth]

What was you reaction After the first call. ? Our Virus just went Viral

[@smartchild100]

@Worfox1 so what do u think is the difference bw a pc and a computer?

[@kattahk]

Great achievement , you had the dream And the dreams come true.

[@realvelikiman1987]

I quite enjoyed that do some more like it!

[@hkdanalyser]

what's up with the weird music after coming to the brain office ?

[@mytightskirt]

Cool, where can you get these from?

[@sufirocker708]

2 people didnt quite understand whats going on in the video

[@hammadfaiz2283]

Allama Iqbal Town This is where I Live Also ...........

[@nabeeghahmed8530]

so you basically gave away your address wide open on the internet!! Nice Choice Bro

[@hammadfaiz2283]

@@nabeeghahmed8530 yes you can easily find my home using this address .You can also send RISHTA of your BAJI to this adress .

[@nabeeghahmed8530]

James Willie hahahahahaha bro mind Kar gae

[@user8878]

Proud to be a Pakistani.

[@umairminhas6918]

Proud To Be Pakistani

[@daniyalnaeem3796]

Wow this place very near to my home.