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Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:03:14 +0000 (GMT)
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 sgorman1 () gmu edu wrote:
Thought folks might find this interesting http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8403 Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet, New Scientist Excerpts: A cure for computer viruses that spreads in a viral fashion could immunise the internet, even against pests that travel at lightning speed, a mathematical study reveals.
I think they call this 'welchia'... I don't recall it doing all that many 'good' things, unless 'raising customer traffic rates' qualifies as 'good'.
Current thread:
- Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet sgorman1 (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Andre Oppermann (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Edward Lewis (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Simon Waters (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet sgorman1 (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Eric Gauthier (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Sean Donelan (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Simon Waters (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Peter Dambier (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Jon Lewis (Dec 09)