Computer Viruses and Public Health

by Ken Orr

Ever since the term computer virus was invented, people have been plumbing the biological world for analogies and ideas to help prevent the spread and seriousness of "human-generated computer viruses." (I put all that in quotes to note that there is nothing necessarily "natural" in computer viruses, they're all manmade and evolve only from a human understanding point of view.

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Computer Viruses and Public Health 5 December 2000