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From: munnari!gara.une.oz.au!pmorriso@uunet.UU.NET (Perry Morrison MATH)
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Subject: Re: paper comparing biological and computer viruses
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SOFPJF@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) writes:
>     This is an outline for a semi-serious paper on the similarities
> between biological and computer viruses, and the efforts to understand
> and combat them.  I present it here in the hopes that others may wish
> to contribute a paragraph or so (sorry no money, but I'll give credit
> for any material I receive).

I wrote a short paper published in the Futurist which introduces the
analogy of software and organic viruses. For historical adequacy of
your paper, I'd appreciate it if you included it in your bibliography:

	Morrison, P.R. "Computer Parasites May Cripple Our Computers",
The Futurist, 1986, 20(2), 36-38.

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