
Ghost In The Machine
Malicious Life
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How to Stop a Computer Virus From Spreading Around the World
The assumption that only an expert could develop a harmful computer virus was totally wrong. Amateur programmers could do it too, and even te agors. It took some years for the pter industry to reach the same realization. Most computers at the time weren't even net worked, let alone on the internet. And so the only way you could catch a virus was from someone handing you a floppy disk,. You puttin the floppy disk into your computer, and maybe you booting off that floppy disk. Aethe creature was programmed to crawl through its universe, eating food and creating a duplicate of itself when enough food was accumulated. I had an executive programme which kept track of who was alive and allocated
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