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Another fascinating virus with cycles is the chicken pox virus. Not only does it cycle in the community as viruses do, but it also cycles generationally because
by bdamm 7y ago
Another fascinating virus with cycles is the chicken pox virus. Not only does it cycle in the community as viruses do, but it also cycles generationally because older adults with shingles can infect children and give them chicken pox; it's the same virus with two very different activation modes.
In general our fleshy human bodies are amazingly good at fending off viruses, especially compared to our computers. Put a 10-year old computer out on the public Internet and see how long it lasts. A: Minutes, maybe hours.
- nonbel 7y ago> "Another fascinating virus with cycles is the chicken pox virus." I'm not aware of any virus that is not cyclic.
- komali2 7y agoOn the other hand the Guitar Center POS system, which is accessible from the internet (as far as I understand, without DNS, just like, if you've got the IP address, you could hit it). But, it's so ancient that it appears to be totally immune to any of the late 90s viruses that are probably still floating around.
- Retric 7y agoOddly enough only for relatively recent computers. Put a windows 3.11 box online and there is little surviving to infect it.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoThat is not a security model I would be enthusiastic to try.
- inlined 7y agoI had to use a similar excuse in college. I had finally got Gentoo 64bit for the G5 processor working on my Mac Pro when I went back to school. They wanted me to install their security spyware suite to get internet access in the dorms. My response was that I was probably one of a dozen people in the world running that OS build. What antivirus could they give me? Of course I didn’t tell them it still booted into OS X and I was playing with making the OSes cohabitate better (e.g. shared UID across OS)