The basic concepts of virus–vector interactions were introduced from work on aphid transmission of viruses by Watson and Roberts (1939) who coined the terms “persistent” and “nonpersistent” to describe the length of time the aphid vector was able to transmit the virus after acquisition. Sinc...
causesunwantedbehavioronacomputer.Virusesreplicatethemselvesoncomputersystemsbyincorporatingthemselvesintootherprogramssharedamongcomputersystems[1].Virusesarenot"accidents;"theyarecreatedbyrogueprogrammerswhodistributethemandwatchthemspread.Theterm"computervirus"wascoinedbecause ofitssimilarattributestoabiologicalvirus.Comp...
The term "computer virus" was coined in the early 1980s, supposedly after a graduate student presented the concept of a program that could "infect" other programs. Since then, more than a million viruses have been defined. However, the bulk of the infections are from only a few hundred ac...
The term "computer virus" was coined in the early 1980s, supposedly after a graduate student presented the concept of a program that could "infect" other programs. Since then, more than a million viruses have been defined. However, the bulk of the infections are from only a few hundred ac...
and hence the Latin termspumafor foamy was coined for this group of retroviruses (i.e. spumaviruses). These viruses, also designatedsyncytium-forming viruses, have been recovered from various mammals, including cats, cows, hamsters,sea lions, and from various Asian, African and New World prima...
Crimeware is a class of malware designed specifically to automate cybercrime. The term was coined by Peter Cassidy, Secretary General of the Anti-Phishing Working Group to distinguish it from other kinds of malevolent programs. Crimeware (as distinct from spyware, adware, and malware) is designed...
sometimes hyping the danger well beyond reality. from washington post the term was coined in 1992 when neal stephenson published his hit sci-fi novel snow crash, in which the protagonist moves between a virtual world and the real world fighting a computer virus. from singularity hub a computer...
work independently and showed that the causative agent was able to replicate and multiply in the tobacco plant host cell. thus he coined the term ‘virus’ to show the non-bacterial nature of the tobacco mosaic disease. structure the tobacco mosaic virus (tmv) has a rod-like appearance that...
9 Discovery of Viruses Martinus Beijerinck (1897) coined the Latin name “virus” meaning poison He studied filtered plant juices & found they caused healthy plants to become sick 10 Tobacco Mosaic Virus Wendell Stanley (1935) crystallized sap from sick tobacco plants He discovered viruses were ...
(1851–1931) also observed that filtration of infectious sap did not result in sterility. In 1898, Beijerinck reported that filtered sap retained its infectious nature even afterdilutionand that the sap of a newly infected plant was similarly potent after passage. Beijerinck coined the term “...