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  • Computer Virus

    Computer Virus

    "Traces of the Stealth_c Virus have been found in memory. Reboot to a clean system disk before continuing with this installation…" This was the message staring back at me from one of the computer monitors at my office. Questions raced through my mind. "Stealth_c?" "What's a system disk?" "How am I supposed to install anti-virus software if the computer system already has a virus?" As a discouraging feeling of helplessness came over me, I thought

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    Essay Length: 772 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2009 By: Victor
  • Are You Addicted to Shopping? - an Effective Virus

    Are You Addicted to Shopping? - an Effective Virus

    An Effective "Virus" Are you addicted to shopping? According to John de Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas Naylor, just about everyone is. In the article, "The Addictive Virus", the three writers succeed in supporting their claim that Americans are buying too much "stuff" and for the "wrong reasons". The article uses a casual tone and easy language to create an effect that is light and somewhat humorous at times. Along with its mainly easy-to-read content,

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    Essay Length: 639 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Ebola Virus

    Ebola Virus

    Virus Overview The virus was first thought about in 1883 when A. Mayer was seeking to find the cause of the tobacco mosaic disease. Though he was unable to see them with the microscopy of his day, he postulated that a small agent caused the disease. D. Ivanowsky, later tried tests as well and also concluded that it was a disease caused by something smaller than they could see. The virus was first found and

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    Essay Length: 1,062 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Ebola Virus

    The Ebola Virus

    Life is a biological internet in which viruses travel like messages, moving at high speed from node to node and from city to city. They are diverse and wild spread in every plane on the surface of the earth. Ironically, such invisible creatures have a substantially enormous effects on human life and health. In most cases, Viruses are harmful and sometimes deadly. One of these deadly viruses is the Ebola virus, a highly contagious, deadly

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    Essay Length: 907 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Steve
  • Leukemia

    Leukemia

    Leukemia is named after the Leukocytes, white blood cells that mutate and become cancerous before maturity. These cells reproduce rapidly, slowing down the production of white blood cells that are important in the fight against infection in the body. Leukemia also slows down the production of red blood cells that are needed to carry oxygen in the blood. Cancer cell may spread to the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, genitals, or the brain, leukemia is incurable

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    Essay Length: 1,978 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Bred
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is one of the most devastating diseases to touch the human race. Understanding its nature, transmission, and prevention is important for everyone, and it is only through education and skills that people can practice prevention! HIV, the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), was first found in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean (Packer). It was related to STLV-I, which is a virus found in monkeys (Packer).

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    Essay Length: 1,184 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Mikki
  • West Nile Virus

    West Nile Virus

    An emerging zoonosis is one that has not previously been recognized or is recognized in only a few populations, is swiftly expanding its territorial reach, or is rapidly increasing in incidence. It may be difficult to distinguish whether a zoonosis is emergent or resurgent. A new zoonosis is characterized by signs and symptoms that are distinct from those of previously recognized zoonoses: Existing tolerance to the zoonosis decreases, occurrence goes from rare to common, the

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    Essay Length: 753 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Safeguarding Against Computer Virus

    Safeguarding Against Computer Virus

    Have you ever come across a situation where you were working on the computer and the computer suddenly crashes ? Have you ever faced situations where, on inserting a floppy disk or flash disk, your computer fails to function properly? Have you ever faced situations in which , after running a software for example, your computer works slower than normal or you see unusual error messages? Have you ever come across situations in which you

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    Essay Length: 1,078 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • Can We Stop Computer Viruses

    Can We Stop Computer Viruses

    Can we stop computer viruses? By Research Design Instructor: Mazen Badra 12 May 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Problem Statement Research objectives Importance/Benefits Literary review Bibliography Can we stop computer viruses? INTRODUCTION: “If I can get $250,000 from Microsoft for turning in a fellow hacker, I will do it. It don’t think there is much honor among thieves,” says Patrick Gray a director at Internet Security Systems and formerly a cyber crime fighter at

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    Essay Length: 1,351 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Individual at Risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Individual at Risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Running head: CASE STUDY: INDIVIDUAL Case Study: Individual at Risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Submitted by: s0019029 s0137346 s0230569 s0015311 Laura, Tom, Jack, Jordana A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the course requirements for NSG 255 Joyce Joevenazzo, RN, APO, BN, MHS Lethbridge College February 14, 2008 Individual at Risk for HIV The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a type of retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV attacks the body’s immune

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    Essay Length: 695 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: David
  • Computer Viruses

    Computer Viruses

    There are many types of invaders in the computer world including virus’s, worms and trojan horses. They come in many types and come into your computer in many ways. There are ways to protect your computer from these nasty things however, you must keep on protecting it and not let your guard down. According to wikipedia.com a virus is a “self replicating computer program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable

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    Essay Length: 1,183 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Virulent Dengue Viruses

    Virulent Dengue Viruses

    Virulent Dengue Viruses This is an in depth comparison between the 4 strains of Dengue Fever. The research documented here was designed to try to determine which strains are the most common, virulent and contagious, and their affects on humans. Dengue fever is the most common mosquito transmitted disease in humans and also potentially life threatening. With their being no current laboratory or animal models of this disease available for study, the pathology and growth

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    Essay Length: 718 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Genetic Transmission of Wext Nile Virus

    Genetic Transmission of Wext Nile Virus

    THE EMERGENCE OF WEST NILE VIRUS: A LITERATURE REVIEW Christopher Allan F. Reballos INTRODUCTION The year 1999 was an alarming year when an outbreak of arboviral encephalitis arrived in North America (Nosal and Pellizzari, 2003; Petersen et al, 2002; Scaramozzino et al, 2001). This epidemic spread rapidly across North America, namely United States and into Canada. The detection was first identified among birds and mosquitoes in the year 2001 and by the end of 2002,

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    Essay Length: 827 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Dengue Virus

    Dengue Virus

    Dengue virus is an epidemic facing many Asian countries. Although the current topic of discussion among health professionals is a possible outbreak of avian flu among humans, the dengue virus kills hundreds every year in the same region (ONE). This epidemic is not one that faces easy fixes, in fact there is no vaccine for the dengue virus. In this paper I will discuss and explain how the dengue virus poses a great threat to

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Groceries, Pets, Baggage May Soon Be Infected with Computer Viruses

    Groceries, Pets, Baggage May Soon Be Infected with Computer Viruses

    Groceries, Pets, Baggage May Soon be Infected With Computer Viruses March 2006 By News Staff According to researchers at Vrije University in Amsterdam, radio frequency identification tags (RFID) -- often implanted in pets and grocery items for quick identification -- are susceptible to computer viruses. According to a release from Vrije University, Melanie Rieback and her supervisor Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum have found a way of placing a computer virus onto a RFID tag. This was

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    Essay Length: 292 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Anna
  • West Nile Virus

    West Nile Virus

    West Nile Virus What are the first things you think about when you here West Nile Virus? Mosquitoes, somebody died due to W.N.V., I will not every get it. Well what if someone you knew did get it or if you got it. Scary thought? Once you've contracted the W.N.V., the incubation period is 2 to 15 days before you fell any symptoms; if any at all. Researchers haven't found any evidence that it will

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Influence of Computer Viruses

    The Influence of Computer Viruses

    Topic : The influence of computer viruses Nowadays , most of our activities need computers .They are an excellent tool to help us solve quickly and effectively almost problems in our life. However, the computers are also very sensitive and may work wrongly if they are attacked by computer viruses . In fact , the computer viruses may cause a lot of bad effects for users in which loosing data in computers, interupting business communication

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    Essay Length: 470 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    There are many diseases that are sweeping through our world and one of the most widely known is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus also known as HIV. What actually is HIV? Many people know of it but what does it do? How does it affect your body and your lifestyle? Many people do not know the answers to these questions. HIV is commonly mistaken for AIDS. AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is only one stage of

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    Essay Length: 1,877 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Computer Viruses

    Computer Viruses

    Viruses, worms and Trojan horses are human-made software programs created specifically to wreak havoc on personal computers and networks. The chance of contracting one of these computer viruses over the Internet has increased dramatically. In fact, unless you run anti-virus software, your computer will almost certainly become infected. Typically, you get a virus by opening infected e-mail attachments. Some viruses are relatively harmless to individuals. They just attach themselves to outgoing messages or e-mail themselves

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    Essay Length: 271 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Janna
  • Computer Viruses

    Computer Viruses

    Anti-Viruses The impact that computer viruses provide to this society is currently huge because the computer is a part of our lives. We depend on computer so much. Then, how did the computer viruses get popular and infamous? It is safe to say that viruses could not have been invented unless the access to Internet (World Wide Web) has got easy and popular for the people. Computers have made a big difference in today’s way

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    Essay Length: 508 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Monika
  • Influenza Virus

    Influenza Virus

    Silent Stalker 2 A Silent Stalker From the shadows, he lurks silently and patiently awaiting his next victim. He does not discriminate based on race, sex, or age, however; the youngest and eldest usually pay a higher price. This perpetrator who remains faceless is known as the influenza virus. The influenza virus commonly known as the flu is a contagious viral infection that invades its victim’s body via the nose and mouth affecting the respiratory

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Aids Caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Aids Caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    HIV/AIDS AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. By killing or damaging cells of the body's immune system, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. People diagnosed with AIDS may get life-threatening diseases called opportunistic infections. These infections are caused by microbes such as viruses or bacteria that usually do not make healthy people sick It is a major epidemic worldwide and Philippines is no exception. Since

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    Essay Length: 544 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus

    Respiratory Syncytial Virus

    Running head: (RSV) Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) By Natalie Jache December 03, 2006 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Introduction Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a very common respiratory virus that displays mild cold like symptoms in adults and older children. In children under two, particularly those born prematurely, are immunocompromised, as well as those with heart and lung disease, RSV can be a potentially life threatening disease. RSV commonly occurs in epidemics in the winter and

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    Essay Length: 1,441 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Yan
  • Virus 2

    Virus 2

    Kyle (Brad’s sister) gets a virus: Kyle chose not to go to work that day. She wanted to stay and play with Brad’s new toy even thought Brad warned her to stay away. Now Kyle was uneducated because she chose to work rather then go to school because that is what her parents did. As soon as Brad left for school, Kyle could not help her self to resist the foreign object. She only has

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    Essay Length: 285 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Viruses, Trojan Horses and Worms Can Be the Cause of Damage to a Computer System – Are People Who Generate Them Breaking the Law? Use Examples or Case Studies from the Press or Text Books to Explain Your Answer

    Viruses, Trojan Horses and Worms Can Be the Cause of Damage to a Computer System – Are People Who Generate Them Breaking the Law? Use Examples or Case Studies from the Press or Text Books to Explain Your Answer

    Introduction: First of all we would like to know what exactly are virus, Trojan horse and worms. Viruses, worms, and Trojans are malicious programs which enter to your computer without your permission and knowing that can cause damage, information losses, privacies leak to your computer .They can also slow down the Internet connections, and they might even use your computer to spread themselves to your friends, family, co-workers, and the rest of the internet. The

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Anna

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