Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Welcome to Cyber reasons's malicious life. Our PR team had a meeting with me in 2011 saying that hey Mikko this year the first PC bar is

going to be 25 years old should we do something about it. That distinctive finish

accent belongs to Mikiko Hippun, Chief Research Officer for With Secured.

And it's a name many of you are probably already familiar with, because in addition to being a renowned speaker and a best-selling

author, Nico is also one of the industry's most seasoned veterans.

So when I joined this small startup in 1991 I was employee in number six the company has grown over these years it has changed names multiple times it has done a lot of spin-offs

But technically I'm still working at the same company that I joined in

1991. It's no wonder then that when with Secures PR team was thinking about commemorating the 25th anniversary of the first PC

virus.

They turned to Mikko for ideas.

Then they were thinking about doing some kind of awareness campaign about, you know,

computer security problems. And I remember very well that how I said in the meeting that,

you know, that's boring. We don't want to do that how about if I go and

find the guys who wrote the first busy virus and I go and talk with them

for many of our younger listeners because's idea probably sounds unfeasible or if not outright impossible.

Most modern malware authors try very hard to remain anonymous, or at the very least, hard to remain anonymous or at the very least hard to find but PC, was created in January 1986 and spread by way of floppy disks. That's why it was first discovered in the US only two years later in 1988.

It wasn't destructive, but its proliferation.

It is estimated that brain infected some 100,000 computers worldwide and the sheer novelty of a self-replicating

program quickly captured the media's attention.

When experts analysed Brain, they were quick to discover a text message embedded in the malware

code.

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