A virus is a microscopic parasite that infects cells in biological organisms. Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites; they can reproduce only by invading and controlling other cells as they lack the cellular machinery for self-reproduction. The term virus usually refers to those particles that infect eukaryotes (multi-celled organisms and many single-celled organisms), while the term bacteriophage or phage is used to describe those infecting prokaryotes (bacteria and bacteria-like organisms lacking a nucleus ...

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• Virus - Origins and Beginnings
• Virus - Size structure and anatomy
• Virus - Replication
• Virus - Outline
• Virus - Lifeform debate
• Virus - Study and applications
• Virus - Exploring basic cellular processes
• Virus - Genetic engineering
• Virus - Materials science and nanotechnology
• Virus - Human viral diseases
• Virus - Laboratory diagnosis of pathogenic viruses
• Virus - Prevention and treatment of viral diseases
• Virus - Etymology

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T-Virus, T-Virus - History, T-Virus - Effects of Infection, T-Virus - The Movies, T-Virus - Means of Infection, T-Virus - Known Antigens, T-Virus - Trivia

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Research for the virus began in 1978 in Arklay Labs. Umbrella saw potential in the recently discovered Ebola virus that had just been found in Africa. The corporation saw limitless potential in the virus due to its nearly 90% death rate. Umbrella was very careful about its research. The Biological Weapons Convention prohibited the research and development of such things. So to get around this obstacle, Umbrella masqueraded their research, claiming they ...

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T-Virus, T-Virus - History, T-Virus - Effects of Infection, T-Virus - The Movies, T-Virus - Means of Infection, T-Virus - Known Antigens, T-Virus - Trivia

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Coxsackie A virus is a cytolytic virus of the Picornaviridae family, a enterovirus (a group containing the polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses). There are 61 non-polio enteroviruses that can cause disease in humans, of them 23 are Coxsackie A viruses (6 are Coxsackie B viruses). Enterovirus are the second most common viral infectious agents in humans (after the rhinoviruses) Other related archivesCoxsackie B, Picornaviridae, echoviruses, enterovirus, polioviruses, rhinoviru

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The Church of Virus (CoV) is a memetically-based atheistic rational "religion". The Church of Virus founded a mailing list in 1995. Virians actively communicate through their BBS. The Church of Virus suggests that all self-conscious intelligences carry and transmit memes, but argues that (almost) everyone has the ability and obligation to carefully select the memes they choose to propagate. The Virian religion holds that there are three virtues to strive to uphold, these being: Reason, Empathy and Vision; along with three "sens ...

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The Viru Valley is on the north west coast of Peru. Viru Valley - The Viru Valley Project. In 1946 the first attempt to study settlement patterns in the Americas took place in the Viru Valley, led by Gordon Willey. Rather than examine individual settlement sites, Willey wanted to look at the valley as a whole and the way that each village interacted with the others. The study showed that villages were located in places which reflected their relationship with the wider landscape and their neighbours. ...

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• Viru Valley - The Viru Valley Project

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A computer virus, Blaster, infected several computer networks across continents recently, disrupting all normal functions, creating havoc in the business world. During the vicious virus attack, the utilisation of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the computer - which is its main think tank - was found to be extremely high, overshooting all permissible limits and causing computers to behave in an abnormal fashion.

The human mind is often compared to a computer. In fact, we could draw an interesting analogy between a computer virus attack and the mind being plagued by virus-like evil thoughts.

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The Herpes simplex virus (or HSV) manifests itself in two common diseases marked by watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes (such as the mouth or lips) or blisters on the genitals. The disease is contagious particularly during an outbreak and at this time incurable. An infection on the lips is commonly known as a 'cold sore' or 'fever blister'. It is sometimes refered to as "the gift that keeps on giving."[1] It is thought that up to 80% of the general population will have the presence of the herpes simplex virus antibo ...

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• Herpes simplex virus - HSV-1 and HSV-2
• Herpes simplex virus - HSV disease
• Herpes simplex virus - Orofacial infection Generally HSV 1
• Herpes simplex virus - Genital infection Generally HSV 2
• Herpes simplex virus - Other skin infections
• Herpes simplex virus - Herpes simplex encephalitis
• Herpes simplex virus - Neonatal herpes simplex
• Herpes simplex virus - Outbreak triggers
• Herpes simplex virus - Prevalence
• Herpes simplex virus - Transmission
• Herpes simplex virus - Prevention
• Herpes simplex virus - Future directions
• Herpes simplex virus - Treatments
• Herpes simplex virus - Pharmacotherapy
• Herpes simplex virus - Complementary
• Herpes simplex virus - Unsubstantiated claims
• Herpes simplex virus - Long-term effects
• Herpes simplex virus - Psychological and social effects
• Herpes simplex virus - Quality of life issues
• Herpes simplex virus - Disclosure to new partners
• Herpes simplex virus - Myths
• Herpes simplex virus - Other herpes viruses

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West Nile virus is a virus of the family Flaviviridae, found in both tropical and temperate regions. It mainly infects birds, but is known to infect humans, horses, cats, bats, chipmunks, skunks, squirrels, and domestic rabbits. The main route of human infection is through the bite of an infected mosquito. Photographs from a high resolution electron microscope published in the journal Science reveal the virus as spherical with a slightly bumpy surface but no projecting protein arms. It has no similarities ...

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• West Nile virus - Symptoms
• West Nile virus - History
• West Nile virus - Geographic distribution
• West Nile virus - Recent outbreaks
• West Nile virus - Surveillance methods
• West Nile virus - Experimental treatment

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Anti-virus software consists of computer programs that attempt to identify, thwart and eliminate computer viruses and other malicious software (malware). Anti-virus software typically uses two different techniques to accomplish this: Examining (scanning) files to look for known viruses matching definitions in a virus dictionary Identifying suspicious behavior from any computer program which might indicate infection. Such analysis may include data captures, port monitoring and other methods. Most commercial anti-virus software uses both of these appr ...

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• Anti-virus software - Approaches to virus detection
• Anti-virus software - Virus dictionary approach
• Anti-virus software - Suspicious behavior approach
• Anti-virus software - Other ways to detect viruses
• Anti-virus software - Issues of concern
• Anti-virus software - List of antivirus software and companies
• Anti-virus software - For corporate market
• Anti-virus software - Commercial and shareware
• Anti-virus software - Freeware
• Anti-virus software - GPL software
• Anti-virus software - Unclassified
• Anti-virus software - Testing Organizations

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In computer security technology, a virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents. A computer virus behaves in a way similar to a biological virus, which spreads by inserting itself into living cells. Extending the analogy, the insertion of a virus into the program is termed as an infection, and the infected file (or executable code that is not part of a file) is called a host. Viruses are one of the several types of malicious software or malware. In ...

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• Computer virus - Definition
• Computer virus - Use of the word virus
• Computer virus - History
• Computer virus - Why people create computer viruses
• Computer virus - Replication Strategies
• Computer virus - Nonresident viruses
• Computer virus - Resident viruses
• Computer virus - Host types
• Computer virus - Methods to avoid detection
• Computer virus - Avoiding bait files and other undesirable hosts
• Computer virus - Stealth
• Computer virus - Self-modification
• Computer virus - Viruses and legitimate software
• Computer virus - The vulnerability of operating systems to viruses
• Computer virus - The role of software development
• Computer virus - Anti-virus software and other countermeasures

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Viruses can be classified in several ways, such as by their geometry, by whether they have envelopes, by the identity of the host organism they can infect, by mode of transmission, or by the type of disease they cause. The most useful classification is probably by the type of nucleic acid the virus contains and its mode of expression. This classification was proposed by Nobel-prize winner David Baltimore. It should be noted that none of these classifications are expected to be phylogenetic, as viruses may not share a common origin. Including:

• Virus classification - Overview
• Virus classification - Classification by genome type
• Virus classification - DNA viruses
• Virus classification - RNA viruses
• Virus classification - DNA and RNA Reverse Transcribing viruses
• Virus classification - Subviral agents
• Virus classification - Viroids
• Virus classification - Satellites
• Virus classification - Prions
• Virus classification - Other resources
• Virus classification - External links

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(c)Brain (the industry standard name being Brain) is a 1986 computer virus that infects DOS File Allocation Table file systems. The virus is also known as Lahore, Pakistani, Pakistani Brain, and UIUC. (c)Brain is a boot sector infector that moves the boot sector and replaces it with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked as bad. The Disk label is also changed to (c)Brain. Infected disks have 3kb of bad sectors. The following text can be seen in infected ...

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• cBrain computer virus - External link

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CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller, is a computer virus written by Chen Ing Hau of Taiwan. It is considered to be one of the most harmful widely circulated viruses, destroying all information on users' systems and in some cases overwriting the system BIOS. CIH computer virus - History. In September 1998, Yamaha shipped a firmware update to their CD-R400 Drives that were infected with the virus. In October 1998, a demo version of the Activision game SiN that was propagated by us ...

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• CIH computer virus - History
• CIH computer virus - Virus specifics
• CIH computer virus - CIH v1.2/CIH.1103
• CIH computer virus - CIH v1.3/CIH.1010A and CIH1010.B
• CIH computer virus - CIH v1.4/CIH.1019
• CIH computer virus - CIH.1049
• CIH computer virus - CIH.1106

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Bliss is a computer virus that infects GNU/Linux systems. It was posted on a Usenet usergroup by its author on February 5th, 1997. When executed, it attempts to attach itself to Linux executable files, which regular users do not have access to. This prevents the executables from running, so users notice it immediately. Although it was probably intended to prove that Linux can be infected, it does not propogate very effectively becaus ...

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The T-Virus is like any other virus. It is a protein crystal with a DNA core. As the crystal makes contact with a cell's membrane, it destroys it and inserts its DNA into the cell. The cell absorbs the viral genome into its own DNA, which takes over the cell's functions. The cell begins to produce offspring of the original virus. The new viruses are then released from the host cell and infect the neighboring ...

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T-Virus, T-Virus - History, T-Virus - Effects of Infection, T-Virus - The Movies, T-Virus - Means of Infection, T-Virus - Known Antigens, T-Virus - Trivia

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The word virus has no classically attested plural form in Latin. In antiquity the word had not yet acquired its current meaning. It denoted something like toxicity; venom; a poisonous, deleterious, or unpleasant agent or principle; or poison in the abstract or general sense[2]. Nouns denoting countable entities (such as book) pluralize; noncountable entities (such as air, mood, valor) pluralize only under special circumst ...

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Plural of virus, Plural of virus - Plural of virus in Latin, Plural of virus - Etymology, Plural of virus - Use of the virii form, Plural of virus - Notes

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There are three known serums that will cure those infected with the T-Virus. The first is an unnamed vaccine developed by Douglas Rover of the Umbrella Medical Service in Raccoon Hospital (depicted in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis) as a last-minute effort to find a cure for the virus. However, most of the hospital's staff had already succumbed to the virus before the vaccine could've been properly mass-produced. This vaccine can be cultivated by using a specialized synthesizer and inserting a medium base into the system, and then mi ...

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T-Virus, T-Virus - History, T-Virus - Effects of Infection, T-Virus - The Movies, T-Virus - Means of Infection, T-Virus - Known Antigens, T-Virus - Trivia

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Krytos virus - Scientific. The Krytos virus was a highly contagious and very deadly virus. It could spread via a number of avenues, including by water supplies and air. The virus often killed its host in less than two weeks, resulting in a painful, grizzly death. The virus was specifically designed to be destroyed easily with bacta. While she was certainly interested in killing as many individuals as possible, Isard's primary goal was to cause discontent in the New Republic by making the demand for bacta s ...

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Krytos virus, Krytos virus - Background, Krytos virus - Scientific, Krytos virus - Political, Krytos virus - Literary references

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A signature virus is a piece of text placed in a signature block which encourages readers to copy it into their own signature block. This copying is the means of reproduction of the meme, and because the text encourages its own copying it is considered to be a memetic virus. A simple example: I'm a signature virus. Please add me to your signature and help me spread! It is possible for such a virus to carry a short informational payload in addition to the copying instructions. In the above example, the only payload is the concept and term "signature virus". Signature viruses are usually ...

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Honor system virus, Honor system virus - Signature virus, Honor system virus - Honor system virus, Honor system virus - Variants

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