i am amazed how small viruses are

celticcountry

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17 Dec 05 14:24

celticcountry

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Eastbourne

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17 Dec 05 14:24

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looking on sharaza.

when i do a search.I can see viruses lurking.

The size of them !

15kb - 246 kb.

thats tiny.

rwingett

Ming the Merciless

Royal Oak, MI

Joined: 09 Sep 01
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17 Dec 05 16:27

Originally posted by celticcountry
looking on sharaza.

when i do a search.I can see viruses lurking.

The size of them !

15kb - 246 kb.

thats tiny.

Your forum avatar is 4 kb. That would make the lowliest virus nearly 4 times as great as you.

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 716360

17 Dec 05 16:49

there have been viruses as small as 1704 byte....

people who know how to program in assembler code can have quite complex programs in quite small space.

UmbrageOfSnow

All Bark, No Bite

Playing percussion

Joined: 13 Jul 05
Moves: 13279

17 Dec 05 22:09

I agree, I have seen some amazingly small viruses. The smallest I have ever heard of would be down to about 3.2 kb with a 42nm diameter, or about 5kb with an 18nm diameter.

Oh wait, you were talking about computer viruses. Sorry, my post is meaningless the, just know that human viruses are even smaller than computer ones and much cooler.