"It is a bit ironic, but the fact that Apple currently has such a small market share versus Microsoft 's Windows means that there are far fewer hackers writing virus code for the Macintosh operating system, " says Pile, who notes the premium IT managers place on system reliability.
The virus' genetic code was uncovered with one of the most common tests in biology, the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR.
There are, after all, secrets to safeguard behind these doors, where virus experts scan virulent code, design cures and create advanced encryption systems.
The code behind the virus has already shown up on one website in Japan.
Researchers in the United States have already taking steps to crack the genetic code of the virus behind the swine flu outbreak in order to produce a vaccine, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
It is comprised of multiple files that are 20 times larger than Stuxnet and carry about 100 times more code than a basic virus, experts said.
Most have one or more treatments on the market that act as HIV virus inhibitors to prevent the HIV virus from inserting the DNA genetic code necessary for replication into healthy cells.
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Meanwhile, Britain's health secretary announced Friday that his country's Health Protection Agency had sequenced the full genetic code of the H1N1 virus, the first step in producing a European prototype of a swine flu vaccine.
Modern ones look for the small chunk of code necessary to decrypt the virus, which is harder to tinker with.
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By using a virus to smuggle in a piece of DNA code into cells, the crucial genes could be turned on and the athlete would gain tremendous advantages in strength or endurance.
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The host cell has no idea that its genetic code (which it generally needs to produce new, healthy cells) has been hijacked, for a long time at least, until the code has been copied and read to reproduce the virus many, many times by the host cell.
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The HIV retrovirus, in particular, is a single-stranded RNA virus that duplicates itself in a host cell by converting its genetic code into double-stranded DNA that is then inserted into the host cell.
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The virus was discovered by a Russian security firm that specialises in targeting malicious computer code.
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He says hidden in the code of Netsky-AC is a sarcastic message directed toward anti-virus companies, claiming responsibility for both.
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