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I Have Human Malware
By John F | October 16, 2008
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The common cold. There is no cure and I have one. We all know that there is no cure yet, yet when you get a cold you so wish for one to be available. The aches, pains, blocked nose and headaches are a big pain. I haven’t got influenza [or the flu as it's more commonly known] before you jump to any “Man-Flu” conclusions. It’s a cold, it’s annoying and most of the human populations suffer from them.
So what has me having a cold got to do with anything I assume tyou are now thinking? Well [tenuous link now coming up], the common cold is not too dissimilar to your computer contracting malware.
The main difference is that a cold will be slowly nullified by the human body’s immune system, where as computer malware not dealt with, will stay around doing what it’s programmed to do and grow and become a huge irritant. It will replicate itself and slow down your computer, spy on your browsing habits or even destroy all your data.
For the common cold you can ensure that your eat a healthy diet, take vitamins and get exercise to help boost your immune system to help prevent from contracting a cold. With a computer you should ensure you have anti-spyware, anti-virus, a firewall a secure browser and don’t download dodgy programs.
This website describes the differences well I think. Malware does include a computer virus in its collective description and whoever named the computer virus after the human equivalent wasn’t far off with the analogy.
The common cold is normally passed on by touching somebody or something that an infected person has touched, like a door handle or cup for example. Computer malware is passed on through email, infected memory sticks, downloading files you shouldn’t have or having no anti-malware measures on your computer.
This link has a very interesting article regarding how learning from the human cold can help prevent computer’s falling fowl their digital equivalent.
If anybody has any remedies or cures other than pain killers, please leave a comment. I’m off to buy more tissues and be ill only like a man knows best.
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