Re: Infection density (PC)

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1 total messages Started by Vesselin Bontchev Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:12

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Author: Vesselin Bontchev
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
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