Virus in a sentence as a noun

>We now have the tools to create viruses in labs.

This is the largest spread of a BSL4 virus in history.

Google+ is ruining Google's products like a virus.

" It's in the same class as "HIV," "ebola," "****** simplex virus," etc.

When the reality is people spread a virus and passwords were logged from individual machines.

For humans, you can predict the severity of a flu outbreak based on how well adjusted the virus is to humans.

Turns out the anti-virus scanner had been unzipping and scanning repeatedly.

[0] I worked directly with the official surveillance data and used it to model And forecast the worldwide spread of the virus.

That's because Rutkowska is originally from the malware/rootkit/virus part of the industry.

I cannot even begin to count the number of people who believe that pulling out before ejaculating affords some sort of magical protection from the virus.

Consider the vast majority of fowl who carry the virus asymptomatically.

For obvious reasons, antivirus doesn't generate a lot of peer-reviewed academic research.

What happens when someone creates a virus that spreads extremely easily, has greater than 50% mortality, and has an incubation period of several weeks?

We can form hypotheses, test those hypotheses rigorously, and perhaps make some lineages of harmful microorganisms as extinct in the wild as the smallpox virus and rinderpest virus now are.

Antivirus vendors basically ignore you unless enough of your customers complain to get their signature database updated.

Misguided biotech could effectively end the world as we know itSam is a smart guy, so I really don't want to come off as sounding like a jerk here, but this grossly underestimates the technical feasibility of creating such a virus.

The latest findings I read about were pointing to a combination of a fungal infection common in bees called Nosema with a secondary cause, perhaps a bacterial infection like Foulbrood or a viral one like Deformed Wing virus.

If SinoGov, or crazy terrorists, or AnonSecOfTheWeek, or whatever, attack US Companies, and private enterprise can't cope, it's reasonable for USGov to fight on behalf of Americans and American companies, and that might include giving them advice on cybersecurity, and that might involve giving them the equivalent of virus definitions, and saying "block all traffic that matches this signature and you'll be in better shape".

It does a bunch of crazy things you might not expect a regular piece of software to do - manipulating file permissions and spawning large groups of processes, installing into a rather obscure part of the user's appdata folder instead of into program files, downloading arbitrary payloads from the internet and then using those payloads to modify executables on the user's machine...It's always unpleasant when you get flagged by a virus scanner.

Virus definitions

noun

(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

noun

a harmful or corrupting agency; "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"; "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone"

noun

a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer; "a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance"