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Ahn Cheol-soo
(born February 26, 1962) is a
Korean
businessman,
doctor
and
professor
.
[3]
He is famous as the developer of the
computer anti-virus
software program,
V3
. He is the founder and CEO of the
Ahn Lab
. He is now a professor at Seoul National University.
Ahn was the
People's Party
nominee for the
presidential election in 2017
. He was most recently a founding co-leader of the People's Party alongside
Chun Jung-bae
.
[4]
Ahn Chul-soo was born in
Pusan
in 1962. He graduated from the
medical school
of
Seoul National University
. He went on to do graduate work in medical science at Seoul National University. He received a
master's degree
in medical school and he holds a
doctorate
in
medicine
.
During the course, he found a
computer virus
, one of the first viruses, called the Brain,
[5]
on his
floppy diskette
. He started to analyze and develop the
vaccine software
program. He also uploaded the program, and wrote about it in the magazine
Microsoft
, a technical magazine which covers computer programs. He upgraded the vaccine program and introduced the V2, V2 Plus to the public with adding the function which can cure the
LBC
and
Jerusalem viruses
. He finally introduced the V3 program, now a very important software program for Korean computer users.
He has been a chief of the
Dankook University
medical school. However, he decided to become a doctor of computers. He founded the Ahn Lab, a special venture business for developing computer vaccine programs. He also received an Executive MBA course in
University of Pennsylvania
, Wharton school. He completed the venture business course in
Stanford University
.
