viruses

There are people working on reprogramming bacteria and viruses to fabricate nanostructures for better batteries and solar panels.

Maybe there are behaviour modifying viruses that cause little to no overt symptoms of infection, or maybe the viruses are changing the DNA of bacteria that impact all living creatures microbiomes.

Before trying again, run anti-virus and anti-spyware software and remove any viruses and spyware from your computer.

Pretty much every virus scanner since the dawn of viruses can be set to only scan on-demand.

True, though if you're downloading some else's entire mailspool you should expect to find viruses and spam and malware.

To use these relatively harmless viruses as a way to scare people away from sex is disingenuous and dishonest.

There is more in to it, like cultural drop of values, increased risk of sexual transmitted viruses, drop in family values.

I think it's obvious that everyone on Hacker News is aware of purposefully created computer viruses and worms.

I'd add to that list things like Toxoplasma gondii.[1] Who knows, maybe it is the viruses controlling us all.

Many of the problems that plague computers today - security vulnerabilities, viruses, and so on, can be traced to problems in this language.

I am poking fun, and I'm not discounting the possibility that AIs could be dangerous (as could people, viruses and earthquakes).

If there is life there is probably bacteria and viruses.

Viruses infect executable files (or other files that can potentially contain executable code) while non-virus malware infects machines, browsers, or other types of "hosts".

(Think of it as several different kinds of "endianess." There would be a coin-flip for each molecule type with chirality.) So at worst, if we ate each other, we'd give each other molecular "indigestion." More complicated operations, like that of viruses hijacking our cells to replicate themselves are probably right out.