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Brain, known as the first computer virus for MS-DOS, was written by two brothers from which country?

Correct answer D. Pakistan

Explanation

Brain was created in 1986 by Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, brothers who ran a computer shop in Lahore, Pakistan; it infected the boot sector of floppy disks.

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