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by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on April 5th, 2006

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Why do we have so many computer viruses, but no computer bacteria?

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  • by LynfromNM on April 6th, 2006

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    Because bacteria can be treated with those big-time 5 day antibiotics and within 24 hours, are no longer contagious! With viruses, it's another story. Vigorously vapo-rub your computer tower, buy a box of extra-soft tissues, and hope the neighborhood computer geek can rescue you from a prolonged illness. Of course if you had been diligent about washing your computer regularly (especially after sneezing on it) you might have avoided the virus in the first place!
    And no, I don't have any links to support this answer. For anyone too literal to grasp it, this is a tongue-in-cheek answer. Since it is in this category I am assuming the question is also tongue-in-cheek.

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on June 2nd, 2008

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    We do. Bacteria are things much bigger viruses which can live on their own, unlike viruses which have to infect something. So the computer bacteria are operating systems - Windows, OS-X, Linux and so on. They mutate (Windows 3, 95, 98, NT, XP, Vista, BSD, Linux etc) and spread (more copies every year,

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  • by Carwash on June 2nd, 2008

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    As it happens, there are things that could be described that way, they're just called worms, not bacteria.

    A biological virus attaches itself to a host cell, and uses the cell to replicate. This is why computer viruses are called so: they attach themselves to a host program.

    However, there are malicious pieces of software that are independent, and don't rely on a host. These are usually called worms, because the first comparison drawn with the natural world was that these bits of software burrowed their way around systems, exploiting security vulnerabilities to dig new "tunnels" from one place to the next. You could describe these as 'computer bacteria', although they don't usually consume anything like bacteria do, they replicate in a similar way. At least, as similar as computer viruses and biological viruses are.

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  • by trinityofwitches on June 2nd, 2008

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    Because viruses are man made, bacteria is a living thing. Since computer components are only man made, as well as the viruses, then computer bacteria wouldn't make sense.

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  • by Nyghtmaer13 on September 18th, 2010

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    We do, it's called spyware. It allows viruses, so in a way, it's computer bacteria.

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