《Jo》作者： - C. K. Chandra【EPUB】

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Jo C.K. Chandra The first form of computer life I ever encountered, I guess you could say, was a virus. That first one I ran into made my old PC XT crash while displaying a banner saying "Legalize Marijuana" on the screen. That's not a life form? Is a flu virus alive? Ask several scientists and you'll get several answers, none of them conclusive. An objective scientist will say that it's a matter of opinion. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that a computer virus is alive. This is not just an arbitrary decision on my part, I have given it considerable thought. First, viruses eat to survive. That one ate half my hard disk. It was only a ten meg disk, a piddling nothing nowadays, but it had a lot of work on it and I lost almost all of it. I've been pretty good about making backups ever since, and about virus scanning suspicious disks and anything downloaded from a BBS system. Back to the virus. Second, the virus adapts to it's environment. A virus is a piece of code, a program, which attaches itself to other programs in any of a number of quite remarkable ways (at least many of the more crafty and annoying ones do it that way). The adapting part is that the virus doesn't know what will be there for