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Viruses
Botsareus:
I resently seen this being talked about on tv.
Basicaly it works like a computer antivirus program.
It checkes its own dna for a "signiture" of a virus. If it finds it , it deletes the whole gene.
shvarz:
Endy: Sorry to disappoint, but people are looking into that already. It's not as easy as you made it sound.
Zelo and Bots: iRNA falls into the first category of defenses that I listed. And it's certainly not fool-proof, viruses can escape these defenses quite easily.
Bots: It does not destroy the whole gene. It destroyes that particular RNA message. DNA is still there.
Zelos:
it does shvarz, but for many on the forum it might be funnier to know mroe about it. But I never said it were fool proof, but as you say, I belive its quite easly to escape from it.
shvarz:
Ok then... One thing should be clear is that it's not that double-stranded RNA is impossible to read. The way iRNA works is that it recognizes 19 consecutive bases and if they match, then RNA message is sliced into small pieces (which is impossible to read). In addition, cell recognizes double-stranded RNA and starts secreting molecules that tell surrounding cell that their neighbour may be infected. This activates the immune system and puts in on guard.
As for your suggestion of .antimkvirus, I don't like it at all. The reason is that then someone will suggest .antiantimkvirus command for viruses to use and then .antiantiantimkvirus for bots and .antiantiantimkvirus and so on... :)
We should not just introuce functionality, we need to come up with general rules. Viruses are not something special, they are normal cellular processes gone wrong. So what we need are normal DNA commands that can be used for normal bot function, but also for making virus. Then they will be on equal grounds and different exploits and counter-exploits can be developed.
Zelos:
a rule could be that anticommand can only by anticommands, not antianticommands
but the ribosomes can only read singel stranded RNA, so double is of course alot harder to do soemthing with
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