On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Charly Baker wrote:

Apparantly flu virus detection and removal is similar to the problem of detecting and removing real (computer) viruses. They change all the time,

It many ways it is actually :) Computer virus detection s/w tends to look for specific signatures although s/w also exists which detects the general signature of viruses (in terms of activity, etc). Similarly an organisms defences against viruses are divided into "Specific" and "Non-specific" immune responses, representing the body's ability to react against known and unknown viruses, respectively. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml