Waaaay offtopic

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Charly Baker wrote:

> Apparantly flu virus detection and removal is similar to the problem of
> detecting and removing real (computer) viruses.  They change all the time,

It many ways it is actually :)  Computer virus detection s/w tends to look
for specific signatures although s/w also exists which detects the general
signature of viruses (in terms of activity, etc).

Similarly an organisms defences against viruses are divided into
"Specific" and "Non-specific"  immune responses, representing the body's
ability to react against known and unknown viruses, respectively.

Rob

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