Virus Definition and 147 Threads

A few days ago my AVG antivirus detected a virus and successfully eliminated it. Since then I've been having an issue where a window will briefly popup but is immediately closed. I'm concerned that the virus wasn't cleared fully or that I've gotten another virus, but I've done several full scans...

Homework Statement From various studies, it is known that once an individual is infected with a virus, they become infectious at rate λ. The individual will recover at rate λ, independent of the time it took for them to become infectious. Let X be the total amount of time an individual has this...

On Monday, I was given back my last biology test. Upon looking at one of the questions that I got wrong, I was unable to understand what I did wrong. I attempted to argue my case to my teacher, but she did not think about my arguments before denying them. The question is as follows: One week...

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/02/25/515258818/a-taste-for-pork-helped-a-deadly-virus-jump-to-humans

I want to find a cure for the herpes virus. How would I go about getting the education and qualifications needed?

Will virus evolve into something else few decades from now?

Genetic engineering can be very helpful in obtaining organisms with desired traits.If that is the case,Why can't we modify the genes of virus and make it more lovable organisms?.I mean what if they are manipulated in such a way that they don't need a host or even if they do,they should be useful...

The CDC has released a statement confirming that Zika virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen currently spreading throughout the Americas, causes microcephaly and other birth defects in children born to mothers who contract the virus during pregnancy...

I once saw a cat in the streets playing with a living mouse. The mouse wasn't moving, but it was breathing. The cat moved it from paw to paw and then took it in its mouth and moved it to another place where it kept playing with it. Can a cat become infected with bacteria or virus for...

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rapid-spread-zika-virus-americas-raises-alarm A worrying little known virus that in some people has no symptoms but can cause birth defects,( small head an under developed brain). Is this going to go to other warm countries with mosquitoes?

The (not so evil) plan here to fight against viral infarction and possibly make virus extinct. Why? Because we can. Known Epidemic and NOD(number of deaths) The seasonal flu going around in Sydney this year (2015) was bad. A nasty RSV Type-B virus infection send my 6 month old to Children's...

Ok so I am thinking that it is not in the best interest of a virus to cause total extinction because after that you do not have anything else to infect and sustain your virus cycle. So isn't a virus's best interest to just infest a host and make it want to reproduce like crazy so it could have...

I have looked in a lot of different websites for a explanation of the mechanism of the ebolavirus to infect our body: how it avoid our immunology system, what it exactly change from our DNA and the consequences in the body. I didn't found a clear information, can someone help me to understand ebola?

I am just getting over a relatively minor headcold, and I was curious if it was possible to get infected by the same bug you just got over. My keyboard, computer desk, and other objects are covered in these germs as I have touched them and sneezed on them countless times in the past 5-6 days...

Hello everyone. I am not very well educated on the best way to protect my computer. Do any of you have opinions on the best free anti virus stuff out there? what is sufficient to ensure that my computer is fully protected? thank you!

As I understand it, a virus like HIV for example cannot survive more than a few degrees below normal body temperature. Is it possible, therefore, to reduce the whole body core temperature, under controlled conditions, to well below the virus survival threshold temperature, thereby killing the virus?

Hi, Today our teacher taught us about AIDS, and she said that it has no cure, because every time the genetic material of the virus replicates, it undergoes mutations, and a new type of virus is formed. Because of this, a lot of viruses are formed, each with a different genotype. That is why...

I have problem with my email keep sending out email with virus to others. I have change password a few times and it did not help at all. I have Norton 360 already and that does not seems to help. What can I do to fix it? It is a very new computer in service for about a month only and I have...

Someone of unknown academic background mentioned on a news forum that if the ebola virus were to mutate so that it spread easier, like a cold or flu, that it would necessarily lose much of its ferocity, not killing in such high numbers. Is there any fact to this? And what are the odds that...

My Yahoo is changing their site to the point that, after 12+ years, I have decided to leave. After many searches for a replacement, I finally ran across a site called uStart.org that has much of what I had with Yahoo. My concern is that a Google search on uStart returned a lot of hits about it...

My PC has been locked by a virus claiming to come from the police and demanding a "fine" to free it. I can run the PC using Ubuntu, how can I find and remove the virus when operating on Ubuntu?

Homework Statement A computer virus is modeled by a branching process which branches at times of a renewal process. It begins only one machine. At renewal times of a discrete-time renewal process, with mean inter-renewal time μ, a command server sends an instruction to all computers with...

Say a pair of twins both feel like they are coming down with a Cold or flu. One twin wisely comes home from work takes a hot shower, warms the house temperature a bit, has a good meal and goes to bed early with her iPad. The other twin heads out to a night club and has the time of her life...

This is the second time my computer sent a lot of email out to my friends, what do I have to do to fix it?

Hi, Previously, I thought like everyone else that viruses were alive inside and dead outside the hosts body. However recently I read a book which discussed diseases. According to it, (the scan of the page is attached) there was an outbreak of a virus caused disease (flu) in 1918 in...

What is the uncertainty speed of a hydrogen atom inside a virus? Even though the vaue of uncertainty in position is not given. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Does this mean if someone comes into contact with faecally contaminated matter of an immunised polio person, that person would also be vaccinated. Thanks :smile:

I just read this article recently about John Horgan's new book, 'The End of War'. The premise of the book is 'that war is neither a biological impulse nor an economic imperative' and 'that war is a cultural innovation'. This is contrary to what most believe, that war has its roots in...

i haven't clicked on it. better safe than sorry.:smile: if it is somebody ought to remove it. Have A Nice Day!

Just when you thought I could breathe a sigh of relief and was feeling good for a couple of weeks, Blam, shingles, son of a ... A quick call to my brother in law who is about ten years younger than me confirmed the symptoms. He said the best advice is to get on an antibiotic as quickly as...

so you know that .bat virus that everyone knows how to make in notepad, a message pops up and your computer and then it shuts down well, someone putted that in a computer with the internet explorer icon, someone wants to log into internet but ends up shutting down the computer how do i...

Hi, I am looking for some detailed electron microscop images of HIV virus itself. I need it bigger and more detailed then this: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9114517/image/80168820-hiv-virus-electron-micro-graph I would like to have some picture, not computer render or...

1. Homework Statement [/b] A typical virus is a packet of protein and DNA (or RNA) and can be spherical in shape. The influenza A virus is a spherical virus that has a diameter of 85 nm. If the volume of saliva coughed onto you by your friend with the flu is 0.044 cm3 and 10−9 of that volume...

Homework Statement A typical virus is a packet of protein and DNA (or RNA) and can be spherical in shape. The influenza A virus is a spherical virus that has a diameter of 85 nm. If the volume of saliva coughed onto you by your friend with the flu is 0.044 cm3 and 10−9 of that volume...

http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/DRACO.html Edit: Thanks to Ygggdrasil: Rider TH, Zook CE, Boettcher TL, Wick ST, Pancoast JS, et al. (2011) Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Therapeutics. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22572. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022572

It is in my desktop now, every time I click a google search result, I got redirected to some unknown websites (the same thing happen with IE, Firefox and Chrome). I use AVG at home, did several whole computer scan, it couldn't find anything wrong. However, if I am connected to the internet...

I had it with McAfee. I want to get another protection program for anti virus, anti spyware and firewall. I don't mind paying for a good one. I got suggestion of a free AVG. How does this compare for the other pay packages? Thanks Alan

Question: A new computer virus attacks a folder consisting of 200 files. Each file gets damaged with probability 0.2 independently of other files. Using Normal approximation of binomial distribution, find the probability that fewer than 50 files get damaged. Solution: Here n=200, p =0.2...

I've always had a thing for zombie movies. I'm a hobby screenwriter, and I'm looking into writing a movie about something similar to a zombie apocalypse, but something that's more "realistic" than the regular "bite and die"-like spread you find in zombie movies. I'm looking to create a fictional...

My comp recently just caught an virus and I have tired many anti-virus programs to remove it and so far, no luck. Avast reported the file that is infected, but is unable to delete it. So I decided to check it myself, it's a file in my systems/drivers and when I tired to delete it. It saids the...

My computer is obviously infected with the Conficker virus. It's the darndest thing, it blocks websites that offer virus removal stuffs. Does anyone know how to get rid of it ( for free )?

Do we know why mosquitoes do not transmit the HIV-AIDS virus?

I saw Dr. Oz yesterday. His guest suggested that graduate students in five years would be capable of synthesizing smallpox from scratch. I think he was exaggerating right? About 7 years ago it took 2 years to synthesize polio from it's 7000 nucleotide recipe and it was thousands of times less...

Has anyone experienced this thing? I got it a few times and had to do a system restore. My friend also got it, spent a ton of time trying to get rid of it, then eventually just switched hard drives. Yesterday I got it and it disabled my system restore. I think it also tried to delete my system...

So for the past 2-3 weeks, when i open up any internet browser, i get random pop-ups that i have never gotten before (internet surveys for wikipedia and facebook, and random program download links). So I called my older brother who is really good with computers and he said that my computer has...

My daughter's computer was recently attacked by a virus called Malware Defense. After a few days of attempted removal, I finally got it off her machine. In doing so, I learned a lot about this new type of viral attack. A large number of new viruses get into a computer and: 1. Disable your...

From what I understand, the Ebola virus cannot be transmitted through the air. It is transmitted similar to HIV/AIDS, by contact with blood and bodily secretions of an infected individual. But is it possible for the Ebola virus to naturally mutate and become airborne?

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/oct3009ukraine.html First the west nile virus, then SARS, bird flu, then the swine flu, and now this strange virus. It seems that there is a new type of deadly disease popping up somewhere in the world every few years. More so in...

Virus and Bacteria? What is the difference between virus and bacteria? What are the advantages and disadvantages of them?

I got an USB and that infected virus that I never seen! I plug it in mycomputer and it's infected. Bitdefender in my machine can't detect this virus. When I upload files to host from the infected machine, the host is hacked. It is inserted dangerous code that link to a virus website from...