The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer" id="mwARc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="IBM Personal Computer">IBM PC</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Computer virus">computer virus</a> is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_(computer_virus)" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Brain (computer virus)">(c)Brain</a>, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.