Antarctica [1]

The ``Barrote'' virus was discovered at Spanish and Argentinian scientific bases in Antarctica when it triggered on January 5th, 1994. Machines booted on or after that date displayed a pattern of jail-like bars with the legend ``Virus Barrote'' (Spanish for ``Virus Jail''), and would halt the PC (and thus any scientific experiments that were being conducted).

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Note that is not the same as the growth in prevalence of any particular viral strain. Even for the minority of viruses that are successful in any degree, the growth in prevalence is strongly sub-exponential, perhaps even roughly linear.

programs.

An interesting alternative to traditional integrity monitoring via checksums, inspired by the detailed mechanisms by which the vertebrate immune system learns to recognize ``self'', has been studied recently by Forrest, Perelson, Allen, and Cherukuri [13].

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