Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet

Fri Dec 9 16:03:14 UTC 2005

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 sgorman1 at gmu.edu wrote:

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> Thought folks might find this interesting
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> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8403
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> Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet, New Scientist
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> 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'.