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shvarz:
You probably remember that my sims were plagued by viruses. There were two versions, one around 68 commands and the other around 21 commands. They were completely out of control, eventually wiping out my bots. Well, some time have passed and that does not happen anymore!  Viruses have not completely disappeared, there are plenty of them in genomes and I see recent infections in mutations, but not nearly as many as I used to.  I have no idea what happened or how.  The sim is attached in case someone wants to try to figure it out.

Endy:
Well, as long as the bots aren't completly wiped out, they can adapt to the viruses. I've had a few sims where the bots develop antiviral dna, from the virus itself.

fulizer:
evolving antivirus genes? that would be so cool to see watching a bot get infected then living even though it was doing nothing

shvarz:
I know little of how bots can defend against viruses. What are the possible antiviral strategies?

Alternative explanation is that the virus became attenuated. It's fairly common in real life, I wonder if that's what happened here.

shvarz:
In that vein, here's a recent infection:


--- Quote ---cond
 65 *999 !=
 start
 *.thisgene .mkvirus store
 *.myeye *.myshoot add *.myup add 31999 mult 50 4 337
--- End quote ---

The only thing that I can see is that the vtimer has been removed from the original virus.  Do you think this virus is going to be poor in some way compared to the original one?

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