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Article #3079Re: Infection density (PC)
From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:12
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:12
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cjkuo@ccmail.norton.com (Jimmy Kuo) writes: > This is probably as good a place as any to advance my own "infection > rate" theory. I would propose that a virus will spread only until it > meets an anti-virus system. Thus, it would be one exponential > function chasing another, which would reduce to a linear effect. Hmm, if I recall my calculus class correctly, two chasing exponential functions result in a sinusoid with consecutive peaks in (in this particular case) in virus spread and in usage of anti-virus software. Regards, Vesselin - -- Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN < PGP 2.0 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Infection density (PC) Message-ID: <0011.9211101922.AA06969@barnabas.cert.org> Date: 4 Nov 92 11:12:13 GMT Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Lines: 18 Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu