The Complete Computer Virus Handbook

One of the first books about computer viruses. Written in 1988, it describes computer viruses known at this a time, including the Brain virus, the first PC virus, which began infecting 5.2" floppy disks in 1986. The virus was the work of two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who ran a computer store in Lahore, Pakistan. Tired of customers making illegal copies of their software, they developed the Brain virus, which replaced the boot sector of a floppy disk with a virus. The virus, which was also the first stealth virus, contained a hidden copyright message, but did not actually corrupt any data.