Summary: Confusion Between Real Viruses and Computer Viruses
Back in the early days of the Internet, there was quite a confusion in the media about whether or not a computer virus was similar to the type of virus which infects live organisms. There was a time when scared and worried journalists were warning the public that they can catch colds or even more [...]
pBack in the early days of the Internet, there was quite a
confusion in the media about whether or not a computer virus was
similar to the type of virus which infects live organisms. There
was a time when scared and worried journalists were warning the
public that they can catch colds or even more serious diseases
offered their computer. Of course this is complete nonsense,
because a computer virus is something which infects an operating
system and is a type of software that is deliberately designed by
human being to cause damage.ppComputer scientists have long
theorised that pieces of erroneous or buggy code could over time
involved in a sufficiently complicated operating system to become
viruslike in their behaviour, following certain rules similar to
the natural order of natural selection. If this is true, Im not
where I, but I know that something as sophisticated as a a
hrefhttpsvchostexesvirus.comsvchost.exe virusa would have the man
made just simply to be out of work the way it does. I think its
very unlikely that naturally occurring viruses could begin to
appear in computer systems like we have today, but maybe in a few
hundred years will have computer systems sophisticated and
complicated enough to appear to be in the same order of magnitude
as the natural echo system.p
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